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Roberts & Tilton
ROBERTS & TILTON FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2016 Daniel Joseph Martinez IF YOU DRINK HEMLOCK, I SHALL DRINK IT WITH YOU or A BEAUTIFUL DEATH; player to player, pimp to pimp. (As performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade) April 9 – May 21, 2016 Sade: “Justine (or The Misfortunes of Virtue)” 1791 Opening Reception Saturday, April 9th, 6-8pm Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present a new installation by Daniel Joseph Martinez. “IF YOU DRINK HEMLOCK, I SHALL DRINK IT WITH YOU or A BEAUTIFUL DEATH; player to player, pimp to pimp. (As performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade)” is an immersive environment referencing Jacques-Louis David’s seminal portrait The Death of Marat (1793). Whereas David’s painting represents a single moment, Martinez’s interpretation is conceived as a mise en scène, constantly oscillating between past and present. Entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by a pair of aluminum bleachers dividing the gallery space. Monitors depicting slow moving clouds are hung over each set, suggesting windows. In the space carved out between the bleachers are three life-like sculptures of Martinez as Marat, his assassin Charlotte Corday, and of the artist himself. A closer look reveals that while the figures are modeled after the artist’s own body, each appropriate the signifiers specific to their character: a knife; fresh wounds; a bathtub; a chore jacket. Confronting this hyper-awareness of the physical body is the fourth character, who appears in the deadpan recital of Corday’s monologues from Peter Weiss’s play “Marat/Sade” (1963) projected throughout the installation. -
Annales Historiques De La Révolution Française, 371 | Janvier-Mars 2013, « Robespierre » [En Ligne], Mis En Ligne Le 01 Mars 2016, Consulté Le 01 Juillet 2021
Annales historiques de la Révolution française 371 | janvier-mars 2013 Robespierre Édition électronique URL : https://journals.openedition.org/ahrf/12668 DOI : 10.4000/ahrf.12668 ISSN : 1952-403X Éditeur : Armand Colin, Société des études robespierristes Édition imprimée Date de publication : 1 mars 2013 ISBN : 978-2-200-92824-7 ISSN : 0003-4436 Référence électronique Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 371 | janvier-mars 2013, « Robespierre » [En ligne], mis en ligne le 01 mars 2016, consulté le 01 juillet 2021. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/ahrf/12668 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ahrf.12668 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 1 juillet 2021. Tous droits réservés 1 SOMMAIRE Introduction « Je vous laisse ma mémoire […] » Michel Biard Articles La souscription nationale pour sauvegarder les manuscrits de Robespierre : introspection historique d’une initiative citoyenne et militante Serge Aberdam et Cyril Triolaire Les manuscrits de Robespierre Annie Geffroy Les factums de l’avocat Robespierre. Les choix d’une défense par l’imprimé Hervé Leuwers Robespierre dans les publications françaises et anglophones depuis l’an 2000 Marc Belissa et Julien Louvrier Robespierre libéral Yannick Bosc Robespierre et la guerre, une question posée dès 1789 ? Thibaut Poirot « Mes forces et ma santé ne peuvent suffire ». crises politiques, crises médicales dans la vie de Maximilien Robespierre, 1790-1794 Peter McPhee Robespierre et l’authenticité révolutionnaire Marisa Linton Sources Maximilien de Robespierre, élève à Louis-le-Grand (1769-1781). Les apports de la comptabilité du « collège d’Arras » Hervé Leuwers Nouvelles pièces sur Robespierre et les colonies en 1791 Jean-Daniel Piquet Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 371 | janvier-mars 2013 2 Comptes rendus Lia van der HEIJDEN et Jan SANDERS (éds.), De Levensloop van Adriaan van der Willingen (1766-1841). -
Analysing the High Art of Propaganda During the French Revolution
Thema Close to the Source: Analysing the High Art of Propaganda during the French Revolution Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat reveals the blurred lines between historical fact and fiction. Cam Wilson, undergraduate student, The University of Melbourne Analysing primary source material is both an The Death of Marat (1793, see Figure 1) by Jacques- important and highly rewarding exercise in historical Louis David is a uniquely complex historical source scholarship. The ability to critically examine and that captures both the brutal reality and the elaborate evaluate primary documents is the foundation of fiction of the French Revolution. The tragic depiction quality historical research. Analysis requires historians of Jean-Paul Marat, the radical journalist and political to look far beyond first impressions of a historical agitator lying dead in his bath, reveals the methods source. They must examine it in fine detail and be employed by political propagandists to manufacture able to communicate their description to the reader. a new ideological reality for the revolutionary state. Reconstructing the historical context of the source Simultaneously, it serves to accentuate the sense of both deepens the analysis and frequently provides tragedy and death the revolution has left in its wake. This analysis examines the multiple meanings of inspiration for further research. Armed with detailed David’s iconic painting to explain how a historical research and observation, the focus of the analysis source with such a deliberate political agenda can is to uncover the intentions of the author and the reveal so much about revolutionary France. message they are trying to convey. -
Introduction
© Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CHAPTER 1 Introduction French Society in 1789 Historians working on the French Revolution have a problem. All of our attempts to find an explanation in terms of social groups or classes, or particular segments of society becoming powerfully activated, have fallen short. As one expert aptly expressed it: “the truth is we have no agreed general theory of why the French Revolution came about and what it was— and no prospect of one.”1 This gaping, causal void is cer- tainly not due to lack of investigation into the Revolution’s background and origins. If class conflict in the Marxist sense has been jettisoned, other ways of attributing the Revolution to social change have been ex- plored with unrelenting rigor. Of course, every historian agrees society was slowly changing and that along with the steady expansion of trade and the cities, and the apparatus of the state and armed forces, more (and more professional) lawyers, engineers, administrators, officers, medical staff, architects, and naval personnel were increasingly infusing and diversifying the existing order.2 Yet, no major, new socioeconomic pressures of a kind apt to cause sudden, dramatic change have been identified. The result, even some keen revisionists admit, is a “somewhat painful void.”3 Most historians today claim there was not one big cause but instead numerous small contributory impulses. One historian, stressing the absence of any identifiable overriding cause, likened the Revolution’s origins to a “multi- coloured tapestry of interwoven causal factors.”4 So- cial and economic historians embracing the “new social interpretation” identify a variety of difficulties that might have rendered eighteenth- century French society, at least in some respects, more fraught and vulnerable than earlier. -
The French Revolution and Haiti, by Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley
52 III.2. The French Revolution and Haiti Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley Queen Mary, University of London Keywords: the Atlantic; Bourbon Restoration; National Convention; Paris Revolutionary Tribunal; Saint-Domingue; slavery; Thermidorian reaction I have become increasingly interested in the potential of using Saint- Domingue/Haiti as a prism through which to study French society during the Revolutionary era. Not only is the story of the revolution in Saint-Domingue important in its own right, but the complex and contradictory reactions it provoked back in the metropole offer an opportunity to put Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary principles under the microscope. The Haitian revolution was, after all, a test case for revolutionaries in France, who were debating the limits and potential of liberty and equality – as set against concerns over issues like the sanctity of private property, public order and geopolitical security. A Haitian prism on French politics has two further distinct advantages. First, it encourages, or perhaps even demands, a much broader timeframe than is usually employed in Revolutionary historiography, with French recognition of Haiti’s status as an independent nation in 1825 one obvious end point. Second, it leads naturally to engagement with the developing transnational e-France, volume 4, 2013, A. Fairfax-Cholmeley and C. Jones (eds.), New Perspectives on the French Revolution, pp.52-54. New Perspectives 53 historiography of the Atlantic world during this period – for example, work that looks at American condemnation and support for a successful slave rebellion in its vicinity. (Geggus and Friering, 2009; Sepinwall, 2012) This is therefore an opportunity to site French Revolutionary historiography in a truly international context. -
Voices of Revolt Voices of Revolt
VOICES OF REVOLT VOICES OF REVOLT SPEECHES OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE VOICES OF REVOLT VOLUME I * SPEECHES OF MAXI MILlEN ROBES PIERRE WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1927, by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, INc. Printed in the U. S . .A. This book is composed and printed by union labor CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 Robespierre in the Club of the Jacobins 18 Robespierre as the Realpolitiker of the Revo- lution 22 Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety 2 7 The Ninth Thermidor 36 THE FLIGHT OF THE KING 41 AsKING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR Louis XVI 46 CoNCERNING THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN 52 IN FAVOR OF AN ARMED PEOPLE, OF A wAR AGAINsT THE VENDEE s6 REPORT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF A REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT 61 REPORT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL MORAL ITY • REPORT ON THE EXTERNAL SITUATION OF THE REPUBLIC • EXPLANATORY NOTES MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE INTRODUCTION IN the year 1770 a boy knocked at the gate of the Lycee Louis-le-Grand. Mass was just being held, and the youth could still hear the last notes of the organ as he was resting on a bench. He had covered a long distance on his journey: he had come from Arras. "Praised be Jesus Christ," was the sexton's greet ing as he opened the gate. The boy had already been announced, and was at once led to the rector. "So your name is Maximilien Robespierre, my child?" asked the Jesuit who conducted the insti tution. The young man becomes a scholar, one of the most diligent students of the Lycee Louis-le Grand. -
A Morte De Danton Dantons Tod (1835), De Georg Büchner
ESTREIA A Morte de Danton Dantons Tod (1835), de Georg Büchner tradução Maria Leite Marion, Baladeiro, Teatro Nacional São João Francisco Luís Parreira Laflotte, Mulher, Deputado 18-29 setembro 2019 Mário Santos Philippeau, Legendre, 18 set qua 21:00 encenação Dillon, Cavalheiro qua+sáb 19:00 Nuno Cardoso Nuno Nunes Robespierre, Madame, qui+sex 21:00 cenografia Mercier, Carcereiro dom 16:00 F. Ribeiro Paulo Calatré Simon, Hermann, Deputado figurinos Rodrigo Santos Saint-Just, Cidadão, Língua Gestual Portuguesa Nelson Vieira Cavalheiro, Carreteiro + Audiodescrição desenho de luz Sérgio Sá Cunha Paris, Collot d’Herbois, 29 set dom 16:00 José Álvaro Correia Cidadão, Jovem sonoplastia Conversa pós-espetáculo João Oliveira produção 19 set vídeo TNSJ Fernando Costa voz O espetáculo integra um pequeno Theatro Circo (Braga) Carlos Meireles excerto do filme Le Sang des bêtes (1949) 4 outubro 2019 movimento de Georges Franju Elisabete Magalhães Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro) dramaturgia A banda sonora inclui os seguintes 18 outubro 2019 Ricardo Braun temas, tratados a partir dos originais: assistência de encenação Por una Cabeza, de Carlos Gardel Teatro Húngaro de Cluj Nuno M Cardoso Musica Ricercata: I. Sostenuto (Cluj-Napoca, Roménia) de György Ligeti Festival da União dos com interpretação Pierre-Laurent Aimard Teatros da Europa Afonso Santos Lacroix, Soldado, An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 23 novembro 2019 Cidadão, Deputado de Johann Strauss II Albano Jerónimo Danton interpretação Zubin Mehta Teatro Nacional D. Maria II António Afonso Parra Hérault-Séchelles, & Wiener Philharmoniker (Lisboa) Jovem Cavalheiro, Cidadão, Deputado 9-19 janeiro 2020 Joana Carvalho Lucile, Mulher de Simon, dur. aprox. 2:30 com intervalo Adelaide, Thomas Payne, M/12 anos Mulher, Membro da Junta de Salvação Pública, Deputado Espetáculo em língua portuguesa, João Melo Camille Desmoulins, legendado em inglês. -
Rochambeau's Cavalry: Lauzun's Legion in Connecticut 1780-1781
Rochambeau's Cavalry: Lauzun's Legion in Connecticut 1780-1781 The Winter Quarters of Lauzun's Legion in Lebanon and its March Through the State in 1781 Rochambeau's Conferences in Hartford and Wethersfield Historical And Architectural Survey Project Historian: ROBERT A. SELIG, Ph.D. Project Director: MARY M. DONOHUE Sponsors: State of Connecticut JOHN G. ROWLAND Governor Connecticut Historical Commission JOHN W. SHANNAHAN Director and State Historic Preservation Officer DAWN MADDOX, Ph.D. Preservation Programs Supervisor Co-Sponsor: Inter Community Historic Resources Committee Hans DePold, Chairman 2000 Connecticut Historical Commission 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106 Tel.: (860) 566-3005 Fax: (860) 566-5078 E-mail: [email protected] Inter Community Historic Resources Committee Hans DePold, Chairman 2 CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 3. METHODOLOGY 6 3.1 Criteria for Selection: How Sites Were Chosen for Inclusion 8 3.2 The Form 9 3.3 Other Parts of the Survey Report 10 3.4 Recommendations for Phase III of the Rochambeau in Connecticut Project 11 4. The Conference at Hartford, September 18-22, 1780 14 5. The Conference at Wethersfield, May 19-26, 1781 21 6. The Volontaires Étrangers de Lauzun 27 6.1 A Brief History of the Volontaires 27 6.2 Winter Quarters in Lebanon, November 1, 1780, to June 21, 1781 30 6.3 Order and Organization of the March through Connecticut, June 21 to July 3, 1781 34 7. CONCLUSION 42 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY 44 9. DOCUMENTS 10. MARKERS erected by the State of Connecticut in 1956 Commemorating the March of Infantry under the comte de Rochambeau and of Cavalry under the duc de Lauzun through Connecticut in 1780, 1781, and 1782 11. -
Napoleon Reversing the French Revolution. HIST 3000 (Chicago
Napoleon Reversing the French Revolution. HIST 3000 (Chicago Style) Napoleon Bonaparte turned France into a police state during his reign.1 However, he did not continue the French Revolution as the French people hoped. The French Revolution brought forth liberty and to do as ones will if it does not harm another.2 A new document brought by the French Revolution embodying these principles was the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789.3 This Declaration stated under article 11 that there was to be a free flow of ideas and opinions in writing and the press.4 Article 7 outlawed any cruel harsh punishment and arbitrary sentencing.5 However, Napoleon reversed these fundamental principles of the French Revolution. Writers, the press, along with the French people were subjected to the General police and prefects and were banned from saying anything controversial, against his regime, anything about France’s revolutionary past, and against France’s allies.6 Arbitrary, cruel punishments, and harsh rules were enacted by Napoleon through the Penal Code in 1810.7 Napoleon did not continue the French Revolution and reversed it by turning France into a police state and monitored and censored the French people, the press, and writers. French Revolution embodiment The French Revolution exemplifies liberty and freedom.8 This was what the revolutionaries were fighting for during the revolution of 1789, and was not given to the French people during the Ancient Regime.9 The French Revolution, particularly the revolution of 1789, exemplified the 1 Philip G. Dwyer, Napoleon and Europe (Great Britain: Longman, 2001), Pg. -
After Robespierre
J . After Robespierre THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION Mter Robespierre THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION By ALBERT MATHIEZ Translated from the French by Catherine Alison Phillips The Universal Library GROSSET & DUNLAP NEW YORK COPYRIGHT ©1931 BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS La Reaction Thermidorienne COPYRIGHT 1929 BY MAX LECLERC ET CIE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY EDITION, 1965 BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 65·14385 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE So far as order of time is concerned, M. M athie( s study of the Thermidorian Reaction, of which the present volume is a translation, is a continuation of his history of the French Revolution, of which the English version was published in 1928. In form and character, however, there is a notable difference. In the case of the earlier work the limitations imposed by the publishers excluded all references and foot-notes, and the author had to refer the reader to his other published works for the evidence on which his conclusions were based. In the case of the present book no such limitations have been set, and M. Mathiei: has thus been able not only to state his con clusions, but to give the chain of reasoning by which they have been reached. The Thermidorian Reaction is therefore something more than a sequel to The French Revolution, which M. Mathiei:, with perhaps undue modesty, has described as a precis having no independent authority; it is not only a work of art, but a weighty contribution to historical science. In the preface to his French Revolution M. -
Marisa Linton, Virtue Or Glory?: Dilemmas of Political Heroism In
Virtue or Glory? 83 Virtue or Glory?: Dilemmas of Political Heroism in the French Revolution Marisa Linton At some point after Maximilien Robespierre embarked on a career in revolutionary politics he became known as “the incorruptible.” This meant that he was seen as a “man of virtue.” People nowadays do not use the term virtue when they talk about politics. Sometimes I am told this is an archaic term that the general public will no longer understand. Yet in the realm of contemporary politics, matters of morality and immorality are as topical as ever. We no longer speak about the virtue of political leaders, but we do speak about honesty and hypocrisy; corruption and integrity; the need to put the public good over cronyism and favoritism; the acceptability or otherwise of political ambition and careerism; and the proper demarcation between public and private life. For example, the recent detention for questioning of Nicolas Sarkozy, on 1 July 2014, following allegations about corruption during his time in public office, invoked some of the same issues that vexed the revolutionary generation.1 There is a difference of course between our politicians and those of the French Revolution. We do not cut the heads off our politicians when they fall short of high moral standards. But we all know that the integrity or otherwise of politicians has an impact on many peoples’ lives. We do not, however, expect our politicians to be heroes. We know that being in politics entails, in the words of Hilary Clinton, making “hard choices.”2 We might well agree with Charles Nodier who, in 1831, characterized the professional politician Marisa Linton is Reader in History at Kingston University, UK. -
Die Frauen in Der Französischen Revolution Nr. 33 : Bibliographie
KOMMISSION DER EUROPÄISCHEN GEMEINSCHAFTEN Generaldirektion Audiovisuelle Medien, Information, Kommunikation, Kultur Fraueninformation Nr. 33 Die Frauen in der Französischen Revolution Bibliographie mm tm - Rue de la Loi, 200 · B-1049 Brüssel · Tél. 235.97.72 / 235.28.60 Wiedergabe nur mit Quellenangabe zulässig Bei Veröffentlichung erbitten wir ein Belegexemplar ©HIB IFIEAUJIM ΠΝ ©SIR IFIRAN2ÔSHSCHIN IRIVOLOTIION Bibliographie Yves Bessières und Patricia Niedzwiecki Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de l'Espace Culturel Européen (Forschungsinstitut für die Entwicklung des Europäischen Kulturraums) Januar 1991 INHALT Seite Vorwort 01 Das Urteil der Geschichte 02 Die Frauen und die Geschichte 03 Die Ursprünge der Frauenbewegung 09 Die Frauen und die politische "Frauenbewegung" 1 2 Die "Erklärung der Rechte der Frau" von Olympe de Gouges 1 4 Der Beitrag der Frauen zur Revolution 1 8 Die Zeit nach der Revolution 23 Lexikon 26 Zeittafel 31 Bibliographie 33 Erst anläßlich der Feiern zum 200. Jahrestag der Französischen Revolution richteten die Historiker ihr Augenmerk auf die Rolle, die die Frauen bei diesem historisch bedeutsamen Ereignis gespielt haben. In der Geschichtsschreibung der Männer werden die Frauen häufig ins Abseits gedrängt, totge• schwiegen, einfach ignoriert. Mit der vorliegenden Studie soll ihnen ihr legitimer Platz in der Ge• schichte zurückgegeben werden. Fausta Deshormes La Valle — 1 VORWORT Keine andere Phase der Geschichte Frankreichs ist so umstritten wie die der Französischen Revolu• tion von 1789; sie war es damals, und sie ist es noch heute. Ein Beweis hierfür sind die kürzlichen veranstalteten Feierlichkeiten anläßlich des 200. Jahrestages und die damit zusammenhängenden Auseinandersetzungen. Ohne Zweifel spüren wir noch heute die Auswirkungen dieses Ereignisses; es ist wie ein nicht zu Ende gegangener Weg, auf dem wir heute noch vorangehen, wenn wir von den Menschenrechten (den Rechten von Frauen und Männern) und von Freiheit sprechen, den Grundlagen der Rechtssysteme in den europäischen Demokratien.