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The French Revolution, or the Invention of the Democratic Republic as the Foundation of Contemporary France

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2015, (33), pp.53~76
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Lee, Young Lim 1

1수원대학교

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ABSTRACT

This book focused on the swordsmanship and the violence caused by the sword rather than the culture of the duel which was widespread in the society of the noble. In particular, three authors, Pascal Brioist, Hervé Drévillon, and Pierre Serna devoted themselves to reveal the ‘hidden face’ of the society of the modern France stained with cruel violence. To get rid of the cover and the silence that covered the world of the sword for a long period, they approached the process of the development of the duel and its terrible result through the unknown documents such as manuals of the swordsmanship and the documents of the public notice on the corpse of the Chatelet. This book began with the cultural materials of the sword and examined the development of the theory of the swordsmanship, then revealed concretely the real nature of the republic of the duel by its result, and finally treated the big match between the republic of the duel and that of the literature in the 18th Century. In the long run, the clash between the ink and the blood was over with the victory of the blood. In addition, the ember of the savage tradition was reignited at the moment of the victory of the Revolution in 1789 and advanced into the fratricidal war in transit to the Counter-Revolution and the Terrors. In summary, this book is a new outcome that showed the continuity of the Ancient Regime and the Revolution by positioning the violence at the epoch of the Revolution in the prolonged line of the violence that prevailed in the society of the Ancient Regime since the 16th Century.

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