| Titre | La révolution française au banc des accusés | |
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| Auteur | Maurice Agulhon | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 5, janvier-mars 1985 Les guerres franco-francaises | |
| Page | 7-18 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The French Revolution under accusation,
Maurice Agulhon.
The French Presidency's plans for great celebrations of the bicentennial of the French revolution in 1989 have brought to the fore the fashion of denigration, held up by the right opposition against a left supposedly ready to deliver the country to a « totalitarianism » directly derived from Jacobinism. The archives of the Terror and the Vendee uprising make it possible clarify the link between the contemporary verbal exaggeration and the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Using the term « genocide » for the massacre of the Vendeens by the « Blues » is irrational and anachronistic as well as highly insulting. In a France where a basic republican consensus has definitively been achieved, it is paradoxical that the spirit of 1789 in which definitively been achieved, it is paradoxical that the spirit of 1789 in which this consensus is rooted, remains subject to contradictory passions. Liberty stands to gain more in respecting the spirit of 1789 than in denigrating it. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/xxs_0294-1759_1985_num_5_1_1112 |
