The Debate On The French Revolution Video
French Revolution Podcast: The Three Estates of France (Episode 1) The Debate On The French RevolutionThis article is in French.
The tension between the two concepts of Nation and People, and the prevalence of Nation over People, I argue was not fortuitous. There lies the philosophical seed of the authoritarian outcome of the French Revolution. This piece is in French.
It focuses on the liberal democratic constitutional project defended by a group of French revolutionary legislators known as the Girondins who tried to oppose the absolutist republic promoted and imposed Tbe the Jacobins in In theory, is not the revolutionary moment—the moment when the social contract is renewed the perfect occasion for the broadest acceptance of the right to emigrate? Is that not precisely when all citizens should have the option of adhering to a new social contract in the form of a new constitution or rejecting it?
This at least was what early modem European theorists of the social contract suggested when they were speaking in the abstract. How could legislators for whom the Declaration of the Rights of Man see more the Citizen Thf was supposed to serve as a source of inspiration, suggest suspending the right to depart, one of the rights on which that declaration was founded?
How did they justify that suspension ideologically? Historiography of the French Revolution, irrespective of tendency, has never investigated the revolutionary legislator in these terms. My interest in the French Revolution is rooted in a philosophical question : why a body politic based on democratic principles denies human rights to the citizens of other countries?
Research topic
Further research brought to light an inherent tension, not always Dbeate, between the nation as a concept, and as a political form, and human rights as a universal principle. And the French Revolution led to the Government of Terror. My research focuses on how and why a polity based on human rights could lead to a Government of Terror. French revolutionary parliamentary debates constitute my primary source.
Journal article
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