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The French Revolution as an Imperial Revolution [PDF]

open access: yesFrench Historical Studies, 2021
AbstractAttempts to reframe the Age of Revolutions as imperial in nature have not fully integrated the French Revolution. Replying to this gap and criticisms of the Revolution's global turn, this essay positions the Revolution as both a moment of imperial reorganization and a sequence of political reinvention that exceed our current categories of ...
Covo, Manuel, Maruschke, Megan
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1789–1790: les premiers 14 Juillet: mythes fondateurs de la France nouvelle [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2022
In 1880, the French Parliament chose 14 July as the bank holidays, referring to two important events in the history of the French Revolution: on the one hand, the storming of the Bastille during the revolutionary days of July 1789 and, on the other hand,
Philippe Pichot-Bravard
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Jean Jacques Russo and the French Revolution [PDF]

open access: yesUniverzitetska Misao, 2019
The French Revolution was preceded by a long intellectual and ideological preparation that was significantly marked by works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, especially by his Social contract.
Bećirović Emir
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Royalist medievalisms in the age of revolution : From Robert de Lézardière to Chateaubriand, 1792-1831

open access: yesRelief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2014
This essay examines the histories of the French monarchy composed by French royalists of the period 1787-1831 with a threefold aim: to develop a model of how French royalist medievalisms evolved from Revolution to Restoration; to investigate whether the ...
Carolina Armenteros
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« Cette heureuse contrée deviendra désormais une terre de promission » : la Révolution française écrite par des témoins britanniques à Paris

open access: yesAstérion, 2021
A number of British men and women who were active in the movement for parliamentary reform in Great Britain settled in Paris after the fall of the Bastille in July 1789 to witness and take part in the events of the French Revolution at first hand.
Rachel Rogers
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Painting Revolution: John Trumbull and Artistic Exchange between America and France

open access: yesBulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006
For both French and American artists, there was an initial interest in depicting the events of the American Revolution in the 1780s, followed by a later wave of art in the 1820s and ’30s. This paper examines the timeline, politics and artistic parameters
Tanya Pohrt
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L’évolution de la perception de la France et des français en Caroline du Sud à l’heure des révolutions française et de Saint-Domingue 1789-1804

open access: yesXVII-XVIII, 2012
This paper explores how the radicalization of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution influenced the perception which South Carolinians, more specifically Charlestonians, had of France and of the French between 1789 and 1804.
Lawrence Aje
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French Revolution

open access: yes, 2021
French Revolution: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction to the history of the revolution in France. Combining a traditional narrative with documents of the era and references to contemporary imagery of the revolution, the book traces the long-and short-term causes of the French Revolution as well as its consequences up to the ...
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La modernité politique de la Révolution française

open access: yesMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2006
This article addresses the way in which the dialectic of continuity and rupture may prove to be heuristic, particularly in the case of so radical an event as the French Revolution.
Jacques Guilhaumou
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La Révolution, les fêtes et leurs images

open access: yesImages Re-Vues, 2018
Is it possible to throw a new glance on French Revolution festivals? This events have been mainly studied through written sources, which stressed the influence of the utopian model of the "revolutionnary festival", relying upon collective emancipation or,
Guillaume Mazeau
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