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The Political Meaning of the Festival of the Unity and the Indivisibility of the Republic (August 10, 1793)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2005, (12), pp.93~120
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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1경희대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

In the Festival of the Unity of August 10, 1793, L. David represented the five revolutional times at the five revolutional spaces : July 14, 1789 at the Bastille, October 5-6, 1789 at the Boulevard Poissonnière, August 10, 1793 at the Place of the Revolution, May 31, 1793 at the Invalid and the Constitution of 1793 at the Champ de Mars. But the meanings of the real accidents were different from the meanings of events that David represented in 1793. At the Bastille David represented the meaning that the Revolution had finished and the new era would start, without representing the violent attack of the people in the 1789. At the Boulevard Poissonnière he represented the women’s maternity without representing the women’s political behavior. At the Place of the Revolution he also represented the meaning that the Revolution had finished and the new era would start by flying thousands of pigeons, without representing violent events of the royal death and the fall of the monarch. At Invalid he represented the people and Jacobins’ Victory as Hercules. Finally at the Champ de Mars he sent the message that the Revolution had finished by the Constitution of 1793. In Conclusion, what David wanted to represent in the Festival of the Unity was the fact that the Revolution had finished. At that time David and Jacobins fought against the radical people who demanded more revolutionary changes. Therefore, David declared the end the Revolution and made the people’s demands unfair and anti- revolutionary.

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