McQueen, Herb2024-09-222024-09-220023-6942https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733720780“Here and today, a new epoch in the history of the world has begun.” So said Johann Wolfgang Goethe to the Prussian commanders on the night after their defeat at Valmy on 20 September 1792. French volunteers had charged the invaders’ guns shouting “Vive la Nation!” and singing Ca Ira – “It goes well, It goes well, It goes well.application/pdfen-AU© 2018 The authors201810.5263/labourhistory.114.01692024-03-24