The season of La Grande Peur – the Great Fear – was characterised by social hysteria and anxiety over who was going to be the next victim.
He coined the term "history from below", which was later popularised by the British Marxist Historians, and the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789.
Comparisons are sometimes drawn between the Irish fright of 1688 in England and the "Great Fear" of 1789 in France.
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:It appears that a young married lady, Mrs. Wallaby, living at Croydon, and always in great fear of burglars, is left alone meditating upon a little adventure she has had at Victoria Station.