Actualité de la Terreur - CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) Les Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (English Edition) Année : 2022

"Actualité de la Terreur. L'apport des émotions à l'étude de l'histoire de la Révolution française"

Actualité de la Terreur

Résumé

Abstract The Terror, the eighteen months of the year II revolutionary government generally considered to have lasted from March 1793 to July 1794, is probably the period of the French Revolution that most resists interpretation. The implication, not to say the passion, that drove the search for causes and accountability by its contemporaries and potential victims was of an intensity that showed no signs of waning in the nineteenth and even the twentieth century—this time among historians. The recent historiography of the Terror, some of which is analyzed here, is quieter in tone. Despite ongoing disagreements, a consensus has emerged around emotions as a determining factor in the actors’ radical choices. These choices were not simply rational ones made under duress and dictated by circumstances, nor do they reveal a consistent political vision or a matrix of totalitarian thought. Rather, they reflect the adjustments that individuals are forced to make if they are to remain consistent with the “emotional communities” to which they belong. Emotions are not a new paradigm; Lucien Febvre insisted on their importance to historians in the late 1930s. Applied to the Terror in both French and English-language scholarship, they are giving rise to a new history of elites. But can emotions, by themselves, explain the exceptional state of war that existed in France during those months?
Actualité de la Terreur. L'apport des émotions à l'étude de la Révolution Française À paraître dans Annales, Histoire, Sciences Sociales avec modifications et compléments de notes en bas de page.
Fichier sous embargo
Fichier sous embargo
0 8 0
Année Mois Jours
Avant la publication
jeudi 2 janvier 2025
Fichier sous embargo
jeudi 2 janvier 2025
Connectez-vous pour demander l'accès au fichier

Dates et versions

hal-03919261 , version 1 (02-01-2023)

Licence

Copyright (Tous droits réservés)

Identifiants

Citer

Anne Simonin. Actualité de la Terreur. Les Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (English Edition), 2022, 77 (4), pp.673-701. ⟨10.1017/ahss.2023.2⟩. ⟨hal-03919261⟩
42 Consultations
12 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More