@article{ART002021221},
author={Yun Kyoung KWON},
title={A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution},
journal={Korean Review of French History},
issn={1229-702X},
year={2015},
number={33},
pages={105-129}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yun Kyoung KWON
TI - A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution
JO - Korean Review of French History
PY - 2015
VL - null
IS - 33
PB - KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
SP - 105
EP - 129
SN - 1229-702X
AB - This article looks into the new trends in the studies of the French Revolution by a close analysis of La République des girouettes(Paris, 2005), written by Pierre Serna. He chooses the figure of “weathervane (girouette)” embodying political turncoats as a key to reinterpreting French modern political history. His book discovers that this figure, both real and fictional, was omnipresent in nineteenth-century French politics and culture. Serna goes back to the French Revolution to find its origin. Those turncoats became conspicuously visible in political space because a group of elite politicians-cum-bureaucrats continued to hold the executive power in spite of the rise and fall of the successive regimes from 1789 to 1815. They repeatedly turned their backs on what they had said, but kept the high offices in the name of political moderation. Serna labels them as ‘extrême centre’, because they condemned and repressed all kinds of political opposition as anarchism and extremism, which suffocated the newborn democratic parliamentary system. By such an insight, Serna’s book not only provokes important questions about the French Revolution, but also suggests useful comparative perspectives to us.
KW - Pierre Serna;French Revolution;Directory;Political Opportunism;Turncoat;Moderation;juste milieu;extrême centre
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Yun Kyoung KWON. (2015). A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution. Korean Review of French History, 33, 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. 2015, "A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution", Korean Review of French History, no.33, pp.105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON "A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution" Korean Review of French History 33 pp.105-129 (2015) : 105.
Yun Kyoung KWON. A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution. 2015; 33 : 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. "A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution" Korean Review of French History no.33(2015) : 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution. Korean Review of French History, 33, 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution. Korean Review of French History. 2015; 33 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution. 2015; 33 : 105-129.
Yun Kyoung KWON. "A Historical Approach to Political Opportunism: Pierre Serna’s La République des girouettes and the New Perspectives on the French Revolution" Korean Review of French History no.33(2015) : 105-129.
