%0 Book
%A Janusz Adamowski
%D 2012
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653023398
%T New Man, New Nation, New World
%B The French Revolution in Myth and Reality- Edited by Janusz Adamowski- Translated by Alex Shannon
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-02339-8
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045664
%X In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to «regenerate» man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources – including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols – Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the «liberation» of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.
%K Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Talleyrand, Robespierre, Equality, Liberty
%G English