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Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
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INTRODUCTION
SUBLIME ABJECTION: THE ASCENDANCY OF CORPSES
1. Philippe Bordes, La Mort de Brutus de Pierre-Narcisse GuĂ©rin, (Vizille: MusĂ©e de la RĂ©volution Française, 1996), work published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucius Junius Brutus: LâAntiquitĂ© et la RĂ©volution française.
2. Robert L. Herbert, David, Voltaire, Brutus and the French Revolution: an Essay in Art and Politics (New York: Viking, 1973); Ian Donaldson, The Rapes of Lucrecia. A Myth and its Transformations (Oxford, 1982); Antoinette and Jean Ehrard, âBrutus et les lecteurs,â Revue europĂ©enne des sciences sociales no. 85, (Claredon Press, 1989):102â13.
3. Pierre Baillot, RĂ©cit de la RĂ©volution de Rome, sous Tarquin le Superbe [A Tale of the Roman Revolution, under Tarquinius Superbus], (Dijon, 179), 20â21.
4. Philippe Bordes and RĂ©gis Michel, eds., Aux armes et aux arts! Les arts de la RĂ©volution, 1789â1977 (Paris: Adam Biro, 1988).
5. Philippe AriĂšs, Lâhomme devant la mort (Paris: Le Seuil, 1977); Michel Vovelle, La Mort et lâOccident de 1300 Ă nos jours, (Paris: Gallimard, 1983).
6. Thomas Crow, Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995), especially the chapter on Drouais.
7. Udolpho van de Sandt, âInstitutions et concours,â in Bordes Michel, Aux armes et aux arts! 138â65.
8. âProcĂšs-verbal des sĂ©ances du Jury des arts, 17â19 pluviĂŽse an IIâ (Minutes on the meetings of the Arts Panel, 17â19 PluviĂŽse Year II), cited in Bordes, La Mort de Brutus, 138â65.
9. Lucius Junius Brutus: LâAntiquitĂ© et la RĂ©volution française, June 28-September 23, 1996, MusĂ©e de la RĂ©volution Française, Vizille.
10. RĂ©gis Michel, Le Beau idĂ©al ou lâart du concept (Paris: RĂ©union des MusĂ©es Nationaux, 1989).
11. See the three studies by Matthias Bleyl, âMarat: Du portrait Ă la peinture dâhistoire,â Jörg Traeger, âLa Mort de Marat et la religion civile,â and Klaus Herding, âLa notion de temporalitĂ© chez David Ă partir du Marat,â in the proceedings of the colloquium David contre David, ed. RĂ©gis Michel, vol. 1, 379â455 (La Documentation Française, 1993).
12. Bordes, La Mort de Brutus, 66.
13. Robert Simon, âPortrait de martyr: Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau,â in Michel, David contre David, vol. I, 349â77; Donna M. Hunter, âSwordplay: Jacques-Louis Davidâs Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on His Deathbed,â in Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography, and Art, ed., James A. W. Heffernan, 169â210 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992).
14. Jean-Claude Bonnet, ed., La Mort de Marat (Paris: Flammarion, 1986), particularly the article by Jacques Guilhaumou, âLa mort de Marat Ă Paris (13 juilletâ16 juillet 1793),â 39â80.
15. Antoine de Baecque, Le Corps de lâHistoire: MĂ©taphores et politique (1770â1800) (Paris: Calmann-LĂ©vy, 1993). Translated by Charlotte Mandell as The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770â1800 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997). See especially the chapter âThe Offertory of the Martyrs: The Wounded Body of the Revolution,â 280â307.
16. Olivier Coquard, Marat (Paris: Fayard, 1994).
17. Louis-SĂ©bastien Mercier, Le Nouveau Paris [The New Paris] (Paris, 1798), 175â76.
18. âGuĂ©rin ou lâallĂ©gorie de lâĂ©migration,â in Bordes and Michel, Aux armes et aux arts! 86â88.
19. La Feuille du salut public [The Paper of Public Safety], July 18, 1793.
20. Le ThermomĂštre du jour [The Daily Thermometer], July 17, 1793.
21. Keith M. Baker and Colin Lucas, eds., The Terror, vol. 4 of The French Revolution and Modem Political Culture (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994).
22. Jacques Guilhaumou, âFragment dâune esthĂ©tique de lâĂ©vĂ©nement rĂ©volutionnaire: Le cas de la mort de Marat,â in LâArt et le discours face Ă la RĂ©volution (Dijon: Presses de lâUniversitĂ© de Bourgogne, 1998); Jean-François Lyotard, Leçons sur lâAnalytique du sublime (Paris: GalilĂ©e, 1991).
23. Daniel Arasse, La Guillotine et lâimaginaire de la Terreur (Paris: Flammarion, 1987).
24. Michel Vovelle, PiĂ©tĂ© baroque et dĂ©christianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siĂšcle (Paris: Le Seuil, 1973), 84: âOne can measure the stages of a collective evolution, which progressively went from the semi-nudity of the shroud of the Baroque era to the custom of being buried fully clothed, then placed in a coffin.â
25. Robert Favre, La Mort dans la littĂ©rature et la pensĂ©e française au siĂšcle des LumiĂšres (Lyon: PUL, 1978); Maurice LĂ©vy, Le Roman gothique anglais (1764â1824) (Toulouse, Association des publications de la FacultĂ© des lettres et sciences humaines, 1968); Jean-Marie Thomasseau, Le MĂ©lodrame sur les scĂšnes parisiennes, (Lille: Service de reproduction des thĂšses de lâuniversitĂ©, 1974); proceedings of the colloquium MĂ©lodrames et romans noirs (1790â1870) (Clermont-Ferrand: Association des publications de la FacultĂ© des lettres et sciences humaines, 1994); Philippe Van Tieghem, La PoĂ©sie de la nuit et des tombeaux (Paris: F. Rieder, 1922).
26. Expression taken from the fine book by Myriam Revault dâAllonnes, Dâune mon Ă lâautre: PrĂ©cipices de la RĂ©volution (Paris: Le Seuil, 1989), 195.
27. P. Hintermeyer, Politiques de la mort: Le concours de lâInstitut sur les funĂ©railles convenant Ă un peuple libre, germinal an VIII (Payot, 1981), as well as the Rapport fait par les citoyens HallĂ©, Desessarts, Toulongeon, La RevelliĂšre-Lepeaux, Leblond et Camus, commissaires chargĂ©s par lâInstitut National des Sciences et des Arts, de lâexamen des mĂ©moires envoyĂ©s au concours, sur les questions relatives aux cĂ©rĂ©monies funĂ©raires et aux lieux des sĂ©pultures [Report made by the Citizens HallĂ©, Desessarts, Toulongeon, La RevelliĂšre-Lepeaux, Leblond and Camus, commissioners charged by the National Institute of Arts and Sci...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction Sublime Abjection: The Ascendancy of Corpses
- Mirabeau; or, The Spectacle of a Public Corpse
- Voltaire; or, The Body of the Philosopher King
- The Princesse de Lamballe; or, Sex Slaughtered
- Louis XVI; or, The Sacred Remains
- Geffroy; or, The Fear of Others
- Robespierre; or, The Terrible Tableau
- Madame Necker; or, The Poetry of the Corpse
- Authorâs Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index