For 10 points, identify this conflict which was the subject of classic works by Thomas Carlyle and Alexis de Tocqueville.
A 1971 article analyzes how financial difficulties radicalized aspiring writers during the run-up to this conflict, causing them to produce highly polemical pamphlets. One study of this conflict focuses on changes in the ownership of farmland during it and posits an alliance between the rural bourgeoisie and its urban counterpart. A different work on this conflict argues that the sale of titles antagonized elites, leading to a breakdown of the "divide and rule" strategy, and it also discusses the use of "maximalist language" by different groups seeking to become "the voice of the people." David Bell has argued that the government response to one uprising during this conflict was an example of total war and not, as Reynald Secher claimed, a (*) genocide; both of them consider a disputed letter attributed to Westermann and the activities of the "infernal columns" of Turreau in the Vendée. For 10 points, identify this conflict which was the subject of classic works by Thomas Carlyle and Alexis de Tocqueville.
A 1971 article analyzes how financial difficulties radicalized aspiring writers during the run-up to this conflict, causing them to produce highly polemical pamphlets.
the French Revolution [or La Revolution Française; anti-prompt on "Vendée Revolt" or "War in the Vendée" before named]