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209 not es abbreviations ADC Archives départementales du Cher (Bourges) ADI Archives départementales de l’Indre (Châteauroux) AESC Annales: Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations AG Archives de la Guerre, Archives historiques de l’Armée de Terre AHR American Historical Review AHRF Annales historiques de la Révolution française AHSS Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales ALM Fonds Albin Michel AN Archives nationales APLI Annales politiques et littéraires de l’Indre BN Bibliothèque nationale FHS French Historical Studies GHAB Bulletin du Groupe d’histoire et archéologie de Buzançais GS Garde des Sceaux (Minister of Justice) HR/RH Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques IMEC Institut mémoires de l’édition contémporaine (Caen) JI Journal de l’Indre JMH Journal of Modern History JSH Journal of Social History introduction 1. I define a narrative as a story told to recount events that occurred in a temporal sequence. As a historian, I am particularly interested in analyzing these stories and exploring how each story intersects with contemporary discourses about political, economic, social, and cultural relations. Many scholars distinguish between terms such as “story” and “narrative.” I do not adhere to this distinction . Instead, I use such terms as “narrative,” “account,” and “story” interchangeably. Porter H. Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge, 2002), 13, 17; David Herman, introduction to Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis, ed. David Herman (Columbus, 1997); Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore, 1987). 210 Notes to Pages 3–5 2. Cynthia A. Bouton, The Flour War: Gender, Class and Community in Late Ancien Regime France (University Park, PA, 1993); “‘La Liberté, l’égalité, et la libre circulation des grains’: Le problème de l’économie morale sous l’Ancien Régime et pendant la Révolution française,” AHRF 319 (janvier/mars 2000): 71–100; and “French Food Riots: Provisioning, Power, and Popular Protest from the Seventeenth Century to the French Revolution,” in Disturbing the Peace: Collective Action in Britain and France, 1381 to the Present, ed. Michael Davis and Brett Bowen (London, forthcoming). 3. Balzac claimed that the “law of the pays” was “to innovate nothing” and that locals “have a profound horror of any sort of change, even for that which might be in their interests.” La Comédie humaine, vol. 3, La Rabouilleuse (Paris, 1949), 937–38. 4. On the department of the Indre and Buzançais during the July Monarchy, see Ernest Badin, Géographie départementale classique et administrative de la France: département de l’Indre (Paris, 1847); Marc Baroli, La Vie quotidienne en Berry au temps de George Sand (Paris, 1982); Louis Bénard , Etude sur les ouvriers agricoles de l’Indre (Châteauroux, 1907); Marcel Bruneau et al., Aspects de la Révolution de 1848 dans l’Indre (Châteauroux, 1948); Daniel Bernard, Paysans du Berry: La vie des campagnes berrichonnes (Roanne, 1982); François P. Gay, “La Champagne du Berry: Essai sur la formation d’un paysage agraire et l’évolution d’une société rurale,” 2 vols. (thèse doctorat, Universit é de Poitiers, 1976); Solange Gras, “La crise du milieu du XIXe siècle en Bas-Berry,” 2 vols. (thèse de 3e cycle, Université de Paris X–Nanterre, 1976); Alain Pauquet, La Société et les relations sociales en Berry au milieu du XIXe siècle (Paris, 1998); Guillaume Lévêque, “La Classe politique du département de l’Indre durant la Monarchie de Juillet,” in Jean-Edmond Briaune: Cultivateur, agronome, économiste, ed. Jean-Paul Simonin (Angers, 2006), 87–100; and Jacques Bionnier, Les Jacqueries de 1847 en Bas-Berry (Châteauroux, 1979). In addition, I have conducted extensive archival research. 5. William Sewell, “Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille,” Theory and Society 25 (December 1996): 841–81, and The Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago, 2005); Dominique Kalifa, “L’Indignation qui divise: Naissance de la forme affaire,” in Affaires, scandales et grandes causes de Socrate à Pinochet, ed. Luc Boltanski et al. (Paris, 2007), 197–211; Lloyd Pratt, ed., “In the Event,” special issue, differences 19, no. 2 (2009). 6. Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (New Haven, 1994). 7. Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (New York, 1997). An American example is Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York, 1999). 8. Todd Shepard, The Invention of...
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