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The French Revolution and the Violence: from the Popular Uprisings to the State Violence?

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2015, (32), pp.29~53
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Hee-Young Yang 1

1서울여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Terror is considered centralized violence organized and codified by the state. However Jean-Clément Martin argued that the Terror was not on the agenda and that the ‘absence of the state’ rather than its excessive power opened the door to various forms of violence. Of course representatives on mission, revolutionary armies, committees of surveillance and revolutionary tribunals were the structures created by the state. According to Martin, however, the absence of the strong state favored competing institutional structures which in turn created space for autonomously generated explosion of violence. The repression in the Vendée and the case of the regions of the federalist revolts illustrate how the structure and the ideology were combined with the human initiative and old local factional struggles.

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