scholarly journals The French Revolution and the Discourse of Change in Restoration France and Post-1815 England

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Robitaille
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
French And English ◽  
Previous State ◽  
The French Revolution

The conception of revolution was changed drastically by the French Revolution of 1789 from its original use in astronomy to imply a return to a previous state of being. Henceforth, revolution came to signify a drastic rupture with past practices. For French and English liberals in post-Napoleonic Europe, the word revolution also became loaded with negative connotations associated with the French Revolution’s radical turn from 1792 to 1794, and the fear of popular violence. My paper examines and compares how the stigma associated with the French Revolution influenced the discourse of change in France and England, and how the fear of revolutionary violence influenced the actions of both governments.

Connecticut Confronts the Guillotine: The French Revolution and the Land of Steady Habits

2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Imholt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
The French Revolution

Accounts of French revolutionary violence issuing from Connecticut presses both reflected and shaped the public mindset. Drawing on pre-existing elements of popular culture, the descriptions established tropes which Connecticut public figures utilized to shape public opinion and fashion the state's self-image as the “Land of Steady Habits.”

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The French Revolution

The introductory chapter opens up the question of how to approach the aftermath of the Terror. Most of revolutionary historiography is focused on the origins of the event, not on its aftermath. This chapter argues that there is much to learn about the French Revolution and its relevance to our own times by studying the aftermath of the Terror. In articulating the book’s approach to the subject, the chapter draws on the recent literature on transitional justice and trauma, as well as on the much earlier ideas of Edgar Quinet. Approaching the aftermath of the Terror invites us to consider how those who had experienced revolutionary violence faced the past in the context of a movement oriented toward the future.

scholarly journals Slaveriets profitabilitet. Økonomi og moral i fransk melodrama om den haitianske revolution, 1792-1798

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (71) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Ross Kjærgård
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Haitian Revolution ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Slave Rebellion ◽  
Slave Revolt ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
The Haitian Revolution ◽  
The French Revolution

Jonas Ross Kjærgård: “The Profitability of Slavery. Economy and Morals in French Melodrama on the Haitian Revolution, 1792-1798”This article investigates how French revolutionary melodrama depicted the institution of slavery after the outbreak of the Haitian revolution in 1791. Prior to the slave rebellion in France’s most important Caribbean colony, St.-Domingue (present day Haiti), abolitionary writers and intellectuals had presented the argument that slavery was not only morally wrong but also economically unprofitable. For the more radical writers of the 1770s, such as Abbé Raynal and Louis-Sébastien Mercier, slavery was an evil that called for revolutionary violence in the colonies. However, when news of the actual slave revolt and its violent incidents reached France, the stance on violence and the interconnection of morals and economy changed. Through a reading of three plays the article aims to show that the Haitian revolution – as well as the radicalization of the French revolution – caused play writers to condemn violence among the slaves; to urge rebelling slaves to return to the plantations; and to present a colonial system in which slaves became free workers in return for their promise to work hard and accept the continuation of French colonial rule.

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