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Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 | Nature

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nature (2025)Cite this article 5251 Accesses 1 Citations 298 Altmetric Metrics details The Great Fear of 1789, a wave of panic and unrest in rural France fuelled by the spreading of rumours, was an important moment at the onset of the French Revolution, marking the collapse of feudalism and the rise of the new regime1. The Great Fear provides a vivid example of the role the spreading of rumours has in driving political changes that might be relevant today2,3. Here, we collect existing historical records related to the Great Fear and use epidemiology tools and models4 to reconstruct the network of its transmis

Subjects Complex networks Epidemiology History Abstract The Great Fear of 1789, a wave of panic and unrest in rural France fuelled by the spreading of rumours, was an important moment at the onset of the French Revolution, marking the collapse of feudalism and the rise of the new regime 1 . The Great Fear provides a vivid example of the role the spreading of rumours has in driving political changes that might be relevant today 2 , 3 . Here, we collect existing historical records related to the Great Fear and use epidemiology tools and models 4 to reconstruct the network of its transmission fro

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