The revolutionaries in Paris Bastille stormed while rumors of the aristocratic conspiracy were in French cities and villages. Credit: Fine Arts Pictures/Heritage Pictures/Getty
In 1789, rumors such as a virus spread throughout France: bandits were attacking villages, destroying crops and directing farmers, who were filled by nobles trying to suppress political turmoil. None of them was true. But the resulting panic and turmoil, which is called great fear, helped fuel the French Revolution – and provoked a discussion that still divides historians.
Are deliberate efforts to enhance the revolution push rumors? Or did it appear automatically, driven by real terrorism? Now, scientists have used epidemics methods to solve mystery. Depending on the historical records and models that were developed to track epidemics, the researchers concluded that fear had rational, not emotional roots,1. Antoine, an economist at Paris 8 and a co -author of the study, who was published today at the University of Paris 8 and co -author of the study, which was published today at the University of Paris 8 and co -author of the study, which was published today at the University of Paris 8 and a co -author of the study, which was published today at the University of Paris 8 and a participant author of the study, was published today at the University of Paris 8 and the participant author of the study, published today at the University of Paris 8 and co -author. To study: “We were able to define the logic behind the spread of the great fear.” nature.
“The new model for studying human dynamics” is the new model of studying human dynamics, “says Walter Quattociocchi, a computer world specialized in complex systems at the University of Sabinza in Rome, who studied the spread of wrong information online. “Therefore, it is aware. It is not just speculation.”
Revolutionary rumors
The conspiracy rumors that spread throughout France in July and August of 1789 led the peasants to invading castles and destroying lands records, which, in some places, were decisive in the Local Lord’s demand for power over real estate. The events were among the decisive moments in the early days of the French Revolution, a movement that canceled the monarchy in the country, which ended the feudalism and transformed its political system.
How to conspiracies in our culture
The father, who includes his work by applying the complex system analysis to study history, met with the authors of the participants, physicist Stefano Zabbiri and pathology scientist Katrina La Porta from the University of Milan, Italy, at a conference. When his plans to investigate the spread of rumors during the great fear, La Porta had an idea. I said, “Why don’t we use the techniques we use to study epidemics? “.
As a basis for their analysis, the authors relied on the 1932 book of French historian George Levfar, who collected messages and other documents that indicate how rumors are transferred from one site to another.
They also used historical road maps to determine possible publishing methods. Information allowed the authors to create a detailed map of stories from one city to another. “We have dealt with it as a viability.”
After that, the team used a sporting model developed to study the spread of pathogens to analyze the speed that the stories of concern traveled, and the ways they followed, which were the most vulnerable sites of “treatment” with long tales.