Rosseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 1220
Author(s):  
David P. Jordan ◽  
Carol Blum
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The French Revolution

Symbols of Power: Statues in Nineteenth-Century Provincial France

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
North Americans ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Iconography ◽  
The Many ◽  
The French Revolution

Maurice Agulhon, in his classic French historical study, revealed how the changing political fortunes of Republicanism were reflected in the many metamorphoses that statues of the Republic had undergone in the century after the French Revolution. This study and a number of important works by North Americans, like those of James Leith and Lynn Hunt, are also important in making us understand French political iconography.

Silent War and Bitter Peace: The Revolution of 1918 in Austria

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 1-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

My Subject Today is the Austrian Revolution of 1918 and its aftermath, a staple subject in the general history of the empire and the republic, but one that has not seen vigorous historiographical discussion for a number of years. In a recent review of new historiography on the French Revolution, Jeremy Popkin has argued that recent neoliberal and even neo-Jacobin scholarship about that momentous event has confirmed the position of the revolution in the “genealogy of modern liberalism and democracy.” The endless fascination engendered by the French Revolution is owing to its protean nature, one that assayed the possibilities of reconciling liberty and equality and one that still inspires those who would search for a “usable liberal past.”1 After all, it was not only a watershed of liberal ideas, if not always liberal institutions and civic practices, but it was also a testing ground for the possibility of giving practical meaning to new categories of human rights.

Political Violence in the Republic of Rome: Nothing New under the Sun

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda J. Lutz ◽  
James M. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Political System ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The French Revolution

AbstractAt various times the Roman Republic faced outbreaks of domestic political violence, including riots and intimidation, assassinations and conspiracies to overthrow the government. Violence was particularly noticeable in the Early Republic and the Late Republic. These activities were quite similar to the terrorism and violence used by mobs and groups during the French Revolution and the tactics of fascists and leftists in Europe in the 1920s or 1930s. More accurately, the actions of mobs and others during the French Revolution and leftists and fascists in Europe were very similar to the techniques used in the Roman political system in the last five centuries BCE.

scholarly journals 18th-Century Price-Riots, the French Revolution and the Jacobin Maximum

1959 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. Rose
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Price Control ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The French Revolution

The “war communism” of the Jacobins, mobilizing all economic forces for the defence of the Republic, has many features which seem to anticipate later regimes more self-consciously and more consistently socialist. At the same time it appears in some respects as a partial return to the étatisme of the Ancien Régime in reaction against the liberalism of 1789. Particularly is this true of the adoption, in 1793, of a system of price control for essential commodities.

scholarly journals NEOCLACISISM'S VIEW OF ART AND DAVID

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (49) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

Although neoclassicism seems to be a continuation of classicism, the content that neoclassicism possesses, philosophical thought, is completely different. But this difference does not create a huge gap between classicism and neoclassicism. Neoclassicism reflects the ideals of the Roman empire rather than the Greek antiquity. These ideals and concepts are presented with enrichment with the concepts brought by the French revolution. Neoclassicism, a child of enlightenment, brings itself into existence with its belief in rationalism and science. Besides, concepts that have not been heard until that time have gained meaning with neoclassicism. The concepts which were brought up with a philosopher rigor by David, the most important artist of neoclassicism, such as virtue, patriotism, freedom, equality and fraternity have been intensely treated. In addition to this, the concept of the republic and the concept of justice created by the revolution after the great struggle, tears, and labor took its place in the art together with neoclassicism. The extreme belief in science has formed the most important pillars of neoclassicism. The unbending understanding of the academy, which has been going on for centuries, together with neoclassicism that has changed mentally and many concepts have entered into art as a subject. Keywords: neoclassicism, art, idealism

The Survival of the Revolution in France

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
United Provinces ◽  
The French Revolution

This chapter details events in 1973, when the issue for France and the world was whether revolution or counter-revolution should prevail. In every country where the government was at war with the French Republic in 1793—in Britain and Ireland, in the United Provinces and in Belgium restored to the Emperor, in the Austrian Monarchy, the small German states and the Prussian kingdom, in the Italian kingdom of Sardinia—there were groups of people whose sympathies lay in varying degree with the declared enemy. Wherever the French Revolution had been heard of there were men who wished it not to fail. Their concern was not only for France but for the future of some kind of democratization in their own countries. For those, on the other hand, who hoped to see the whole revolution undone, these first months of 1793 saw a revival of the exciting expectations of a year before. The Republic seemed a sinking ship, crazed, in addition, by mutiny in its own crew.

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