Penser la Révolution française

Furet, F. (1789). Penser la Révolution française.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1789

Link

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3290926

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history_historiography

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Primes

• Continuity vs. Rupture
  • Many long-running debates dissolve into clearer component questions once this dimension is separated from the question of whether the change mattered or what caused it, as Furet (1978) demonstrated in dissolving the Marxist-revisionist deadlock over the French Revolution.
• Revisionism
  • The French Revolution historiography underwent a major revisionist turn beginning in the 1960s, led by scholars such as Furet (1978) who challenged the Marxist "bourgeois revolution" consensus that had dominated the field since the early twentieth century.

    This sourceGallimard. Reframes the long Marxist-revisionist deadlock over 1789 as itself an interpretive choice rather than a factual dispute; demonstrates how reframing what kind of dispute is being conducted can dissolve apparent empirical disagreements.

  • The revisionist wave did not invent new facts but brought three categories of new input into contact with the prior interpretive framework: demographic data showing regional variation and social mobility that the class-conflict model had obscured, the Annales-school longue-durée methodology that shifted attention to structural persistence rather than revolutionary rupture, and archival work on local grievances that demonstrated how widely distributed anti-absolutist sentiment was across the social hierarchy, as Furet's 1978 Penser la Révolution française synthesized.

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