Power, Society, and the State in the Board Games of the French Revolution

In this article we will focus on the discourses and narratives represented in board games of the French Revolution. These sources are important for understanding everyday cultural practices, because board games could depict the transformation of society and the state in France during the Revolutionary years. Based on the games that illustrated the transformation of society and the state in France during the Revolution, the discourse they created will be analyzed to determine the characteristics in the perception of power, state, and society during the French Revolution. The methodology of the study is based on the approaches of new cultural history, history of mentalities, and new political history. The study will show that the games "in the goose" of the French Revolution served as an instrument of propaganda among society of revolutionary ideals, on the one hand, with the subversion of the former order, on the other, and also served as an instrument of propaganda of the idea of political progress, to which the French Revolution was leading.