Études et leçons sur la Révolution Française

Aulard's eight-volume study of the French Revolution (originally published 1893–1921) was a pioneering work of historicist research.

Alphonse Aulard (Author)

9781108035019, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

318 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.41 kg

Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928) was the first French historian to use nineteenth-century historicist methods in the study of the French Revolution. Pioneered by German historians such as Leopold van Ranke, this approach emphasised empiricism, objectivity and the scientific pursuit of facts. Aulard's commitment to archival investigation is evidenced by the many edited collections of primary sources that appear in his extensive publication record. In these eight volumes of papers analysing the French Revolution (published 1893–1921), Aulard sought to apply the principles of historicism to reveal the truth. The work draws on earlier journal articles and lectures which Aulard delivered as Professor of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne, a post he had held since 1885. Volume 5 (1907) covers the separation of church and state and the Concordat of 1801 which redefined the status of the Roman Catholic Church in France, giving more power to the state.

1. La réaction thermidorienne à Paris
2. Les origines de la séparation de l'Église et de l'État: l'Assemblée constituante
3. Les origines de la séparation de l'Église et de l'État: l'Assemblée législative
4. Les origines de la séparation de l'Église et de l'État: la laïcisation de l'État civil
5. Les origines de la séparation de l'Église et de l'État: la Convention nationale
6. Notes sur l'histoire du Concordat
7. Le texte des discours de Danton
8. Danton et l'avocat Lavaux.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]