Jacobinisme et libéralisme

Françoise Brunel and Myriam Revault d'Allonnes : Jacobinism and Liberalism. The Regime of 1795 (year III) did not simply represent a 'dislocation' of the revolutionary government set up by the Jacobins in the year II. On the contrary, the old power structure — which remained perfectly efficient — was taken over and made to serve a fundamentally different political goal. The Thermidor reaction, which was a true political creation, can be seen to have initiated both a new practice and a new language ; this latter, while not completely original, was the negative reflection of Jacobinism. The values underlying the two systems (Jacobin and liberal) are shown to be the individual and social links, property, work, virtue, etc. In particular, this article dwells on the opposition between their different plans for education, which exemplify two specific forms of emerging bourgeois ideology.Brunel Françoise, Revault d'Allones Myriam. Jacobinisme et libéralisme. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°14, 1982. Au tournant des Lumières : 1780-1820. pp. 103-116