International audienceFollowing the execution of Louis XVI England was in the throes of the fear of revolution, and it became bad form or downright dangerous to laugh at the guillotine. The loyalists imposed a strict social ban on such behaviour, considering the sardonic grin of the French Jacobins as a sign of their inhumanity. They did not refrain, though, from occasionally poking fun at the guillotine in specific generic contexts such as satire or burlesque. Radical polemicists such as Richard 'Citizen' Lee or John Thelwall, on the other hand, used laughter as a weapon to destabilize social, political and generic hierarchies. But laughter may have been a way for them to elude serious argument about the regicide and revolutionary violence...
British counter-revolutionary caricature, 1789-1802. British caricature developed throughout the 18...
Contrairement aux idées reçues, Jean-Jacques Rousseau a aimé le rire et la gaieté : différents écrit...
Laughing out loud at the theatre. Despite the fact that indiscreet and indecent laughter was long b...
International audienceFollowing the execution of Louis XVI England was in the throes of the fear of ...
Eau-forteJoseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), médecin et député constitutionnel, a collaboré au text...
International audienceWith the prohibition of Carnaval in 1791, an entire series of pamphlets by mod...
La Véritable guillotine ordinaere, ha, le bon soutien pour la liberté! . Eau-forteJoseph Ignace Guil...
Un ouvrage d'Emmanuel Taïeb, traduit par Sarah-Louise RaillardInternational audience4e de couv : "Hi...
Laughter and carnival theatre during the Revolution. Despite the reticence of the revolutionary éli...
The Spectacle of Execution in Ancien Régime France. In observing modes of behavior related to publ...
International audienceLa satire mêle parole et violence, violence de l'indignation, violence du rire...
Contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait imaginer, le type du « méchant » français, assassin, traître ou pr...
L abolition de la peine de mort en France en 1981 a longtemps éclipsé un événement tout aussi marqua...
International audienceThe law of the French Revolution reinvented the figure of the executioner, whi...
Print shows Louis XVI standing, with a dramatic pose, next to a guillotine. Includes description of ...
British counter-revolutionary caricature, 1789-1802. British caricature developed throughout the 18...
Contrairement aux idées reçues, Jean-Jacques Rousseau a aimé le rire et la gaieté : différents écrit...
Laughing out loud at the theatre. Despite the fact that indiscreet and indecent laughter was long b...
International audienceFollowing the execution of Louis XVI England was in the throes of the fear of ...
Eau-forteJoseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), médecin et député constitutionnel, a collaboré au text...
International audienceWith the prohibition of Carnaval in 1791, an entire series of pamphlets by mod...
La Véritable guillotine ordinaere, ha, le bon soutien pour la liberté! . Eau-forteJoseph Ignace Guil...
Un ouvrage d'Emmanuel Taïeb, traduit par Sarah-Louise RaillardInternational audience4e de couv : "Hi...
Laughter and carnival theatre during the Revolution. Despite the reticence of the revolutionary éli...
The Spectacle of Execution in Ancien Régime France. In observing modes of behavior related to publ...
International audienceLa satire mêle parole et violence, violence de l'indignation, violence du rire...
Contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait imaginer, le type du « méchant » français, assassin, traître ou pr...
L abolition de la peine de mort en France en 1981 a longtemps éclipsé un événement tout aussi marqua...
International audienceThe law of the French Revolution reinvented the figure of the executioner, whi...
Print shows Louis XVI standing, with a dramatic pose, next to a guillotine. Includes description of ...
British counter-revolutionary caricature, 1789-1802. British caricature developed throughout the 18...
Contrairement aux idées reçues, Jean-Jacques Rousseau a aimé le rire et la gaieté : différents écrit...
Laughing out loud at the theatre. Despite the fact that indiscreet and indecent laughter was long b...