Aston begins his book by discussing the special, privileged role of the First Estate, as well as different theological debates raging at the time, such as the Jansenism controversy. He also gives attention to other faiths, including Protestantism and Judaism, which were present in France at the time. Protestants and Jews were some of the Revolution's earliest recipients of additional rights in the new, secular, equal society.[footnoteRef:4] [4: Nigel Aston, Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804, (Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2000), 244.]
Another important influence was what Aston calls a lack of 'enlightened piety,' or the persistence of a mixture of folk traditions and populist Catholicism despised by intellectuals, but professed in practice by members of the working classes. Although France would come to seem like the paradigmatic example of Enlightenment revolution (or non-religion) during the later phases of the Revolution, during the pre-Revolutionary period, the community ties of religion held the population fast. Intellectuals would come to see this as problematic later on, just as members of the official clergy preached against it. However, this is evidence that religion was a source of continual friction regarding the attitude of the state towards religion and often formed a way for the lower classes to articulate resistance. [footnoteRef:5] it was not always a mechanism of instilling state order and imposing ideas upon the populace, and the people had control over how they interpreted and articulated religion. [5: Aston, 55 ]
Despite the eventual, official atheism or quasi-paganism of the later revolutionaries, during the early phases the majority of the French public, even the revolutionary-minded French public was religious and supported the ideals of the faiths they professed. From Aston's specific analysis of the phenomenon of religiosity in France, it is possible to draw a conclusion about his view of the inevitability of the Revolution: unlike Doyle, Aston does believe the Revolution was inevitable. Tensions...
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