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Farewell, Revolution - Historians' Feud, France 1789-1989 (Hardcover)
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Farewell, Revolution - Historians' Feud, France 1789-1989 (Hardcover)
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In 1993, Editions Fayard published Steven Laurence Kaplan's
controversial history of the bicentennial commemoration of the
French Revolution. Here available in English is one of the most
polemical parts of that work, Kaplan's account of the contemporary
debates over the meaning of the Revolution. Farewell, Revolution:
The Historians' Feud, France, 1789/1989 traces the impact of the
historians' bitter quarrel, from Parisian academic circles to the
public arenas of the bicentennial celebration. In the complementary
work, Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989,
Kaplan chronicles both the ceremonies and the controversies that
marked the bicentennial. The present volume considers in intimate
detail the roles played in those arguments by three of France's
most influential historians: Francois Furet, Pierre Chaunu, and
Michel Vovelle. The apparent "king" of the bicentennial, Furet
attempted to set and enforce the terms of the debate. Chaunu was
the prominent spokesman of those who condemned the Revolution as
the wellspring of all that is decadent in modern French culture.
While officially entrusted with overseeing the historical accuracy
of the commemoration, Vovelle attempted to rally a broad-based
coalition against Chaunu and the conservatives. As he reenacts the
feud, Kaplan invites a reassessment of the relationship between the
writing of history and the practice of politics. His book suggests
that the charged relationship between history and politics that
enlivened the bicentennial may be the Revolution's most enduring
legacy.
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