Glory and Terror
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Glory and Terror

Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

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Glory and Terror

Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136692086

NOTES

INTRODUCTION
SUBLIME ABJECTION: THE ASCENDANCY OF CORPSES

1. Philippe Bordes, La Mort de Brutus de Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, (Vizille: Musée de la Révolution Française, 1996), work published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucius Junius Brutus: L’Antiquité et la Révolution 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, “Brutus et les lecteurs,” Revue européenne des sciences sociales no. 85, (Claredon Press, 1989):102–13.
3. Pierre Baillot, Récit de la Révolution de Rome, sous Tarquin le Superbe [A Tale of the Roman Revolution, under Tarquinius Superbus], (Dijon, 179), 20–21.
4. Philippe Bordes and Régis Michel, eds., Aux armes et aux arts! Les arts de la Révolution, 1789–1977 (Paris: Adam Biro, 1988).
5. Philippe Ariès, L’homme devant la mort (Paris: Le Seuil, 1977); Michel Vovelle, La Mort et l’Occident de 1300 à 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, “Institutions et concours,” in Bordes Michel, Aux armes et aux arts! 138–65.
8. “Procès-verbal des séances du Jury des arts, 17–19 pluviôse an II” (Minutes on the meetings of the Arts Panel, 17–19 Pluviôse Year II), cited in Bordes, La Mort de Brutus, 138–65.
9. Lucius Junius Brutus: L’Antiquité et la Révolution française, June 28-September 23, 1996, Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille.
10. Régis Michel, Le Beau idéal ou l’art du concept (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1989).
11. See the three studies by Matthias Bleyl, “Marat: Du portrait à la peinture d’histoire,” Jörg Traeger, “La Mort de Marat et la religion civile,” and Klaus Herding, “La notion de temporalité chez David à partir du Marat,” in the proceedings of the colloquium David contre David, ed. Régis Michel, vol. 1, 379–455 (La Documentation Française, 1993).
12. Bordes, La Mort de Brutus, 66.
13. Robert Simon, “Portrait de martyr: Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau,” in Michel, David contre David, vol. I, 349–77; Donna M. Hunter, “Swordplay: Jacques-Louis David’s Painting of Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau on His Deathbed,” in Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography, and Art, ed., James A. W. Heffernan, 169–210 (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, “La mort de Marat à Paris (13 juillet—16 juillet 1793),” 39–80.
15. Antoine de Baecque, Le Corps de l’Histoire: Métaphores et politique (1770–1800) (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1993). Translated by Charlotte Mandell as The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770–1800 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997). See especially the chapter “The Offertory of the Martyrs: The Wounded Body of the Revolution,” 280–307.
16. Olivier Coquard, Marat (Paris: Fayard, 1994).
17. Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Le Nouveau Paris [The New Paris] (Paris, 1798), 175–76.
18. “Guérin ou l’allégorie de l’émigration,” in Bordes and Michel, Aux armes et aux arts! 86–88.
19. La Feuille du salut public [The Paper of Public Safety], July 18, 1793.
20. Le Thermomètre 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, “Fragment d’une esthétique de l’événement révolutionnaire: Le cas de la mort de Marat,” in L’Art et le discours face à la Révolution (Dijon: Presses de l’Université de Bourgogne, 1998); Jean-François Lyotard, Leçons sur l’Analytique du sublime (Paris: Galilée, 1991).
23. Daniel Arasse, La Guillotine et l’imaginaire de la Terreur (Paris: Flammarion, 1987).
24. Michel Vovelle, Piété baroque et déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Le Seuil, 1973), 84: “One 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.”
25. Robert Favre, La Mort dans la littérature et la pensée française au siècle des Lumières (Lyon: PUL, 1978); Maurice Lévy, Le Roman gothique anglais (1764–1824) (Toulouse, Association des publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, 1968); Jean-Marie Thomasseau, Le Mélodrame sur les scènes parisiennes, (Lille: Service de reproduction des thèses de l’université, 1974); proceedings of the colloquium Mélodrames et romans noirs (1790–1870) (Clermont-Ferrand: Association des publications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, 1994); Philippe Van Tieghem, La Poésie de la nuit et des tombeaux (Paris: F. Rieder, 1922).
26. Expression taken from the fine book by Myriam Revault d’Allonnes, D’une mon à l’autre: Précipices de la Révolution (Paris: Le Seuil, 1989), 195.
27. P. Hintermeyer, Politiques de la mort: Le concours de l’Institut sur les funérailles convenant à un peuple libre, germinal an VIII (Payot, 1981), as well as the Rapport fait par les citoyens Hallé, Desessarts, Toulongeon, La Revellière-Lepeaux, Leblond et Camus, commissaires chargés par l’Institut National des Sciences et des Arts, de l’examen des mémoires envoyés au concours, sur les questions relatives aux cérémonies funéraires et aux lieux des sépultures [Report made by the Citizens Hallé, Desessarts, Toulongeon, La Revellière-Lepeaux, Leblond and Camus, commissioners charged by the National Institute of Arts and Sci...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction Sublime Abjection: The Ascendancy of Corpses
  7. Mirabeau; or, The Spectacle of a Public Corpse
  8. Voltaire; or, The Body of the Philosopher King
  9. The Princesse de Lamballe; or, Sex Slaughtered
  10. Louis XVI; or, The Sacred Remains
  11. Geffroy; or, The Fear of Others
  12. Robespierre; or, The Terrible Tableau
  13. Madame Necker; or, The Poetry of the Corpse
  14. Author’s Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Index