# Levée en masse (1793)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1793-levee-en-masse
Location: France

Mass conscription mobilized French society for total war and enlarged revolutionary armies. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is National Convention (Collective head of the French Republic). Levée en masse is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Levée en masse is a useful marker in the longer transformation of political authority, society and culture in France.

Ruler at the time: [National Convention](https://history-france.com/rulers/national-convention)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Levée en masse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Lev%C3%A9e+en+masse&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Levée en masse](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Lev%C3%A9e+en+masse)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)