Table of contents : Introduction to the Transaction Edition Introduction I: The Origins of Shopkeeper Protest Formation of the Ligue Syndicale Grands Magasins and Small Shops Haussmannization The Economic Crisis of the 1880s The Crisis of the Palais-Royal: A Local Study II: The Politics of Shopkeeper Protest Shopkeeper Republicanism: The Ideology of the Ligue Syndicale The Boulangist Interlude The Shopkeeper Movement Adrift The Politics of Economic and Cultural Despair Epologue: In the Aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair Conclusion Bibliography Index