Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five days later, in a theater across town, a dozen masked youths with shaved heads invaded a concert of revolution-era songs. Crying "Long live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part...
It was an appropriate start -- first uplift, then excess. Just like the original revolution. Reconciliation is the official theme of the 200th anniversary of modern France's cataclysmic birth, but nearly four months into the celebration the French seem as much cleaved as healed by the occasion. For if the...
The revolution is fixed in the collective psyche of the nation. Ask any Frenchman to free-associate: he automatically recites, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." Then comes a torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his...
But even two centuries later, not all of France cherishes the spirit of 1789. Counterrevolutionary commemorations are proliferating. Right-wing Catholics are organizing a huge "Mass for the Martyrs" of the revolution on Aug. 15 in the Place de la Concorde. Local governments in western France helped raise funds for...
The trouble with this homogenized version of history is that the battles fought during the revolution still resist accommodation 200 years later. Twentieth century French historiography has been dominated by a Marxist school that celebrated the French Revolution and its class struggles as the mother of the Bolshevik Revolution. Regicide...