Benjamin Eskola

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Of the 2,280 prosecutions undertaken in France during the so-called ‘White Terror’ of the post-Napoleonic years in France, the vast majority concerned offences such as enforcing lower grain prices, preventing shipments of grain, resisting tax collectors, or cutting down trees in privately owned forests. Counter-revolutionary politics played only a marginal role.
Benjamin Eskola
Not convinced that these are apolitical crimes.
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
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