Reconstruire une vision américaine de la Révolution française : Gouverneur Morris, architecte d’une pensée anti-Jeffersonienne ?
The historiography of the French Revolution is a dense and polyphonic narrative; among its American voices, the writings of Gouverneur Morris, actor of two revolutions ‒ American and French – have been barely studied by historians, on each side of the Atlantic, contrary to those of Thomas Jefferson....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2017-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/834 |
| Summary: | The historiography of the French Revolution is a dense and polyphonic narrative; among its American voices, the writings of Gouverneur Morris, actor of two revolutions ‒ American and French – have been barely studied by historians, on each side of the Atlantic, contrary to those of Thomas Jefferson. This article will try to show how the latter’s political vision dominated the American diplomatic relationships at the end of the eighteenth century, at the expense of other dissident voices, thus imposing his own narrative. Morris’s singular appraisal of the French Revolution will be studied in order to rebuild his particular political framework whose organicist vision is in tension with the universalist rhetoric of Jefferson. This study will compare the perception of these two architects of American political thought, in an attempt to bring to the fore an enriched historical narrative of the French Revolution, thanks to the different theoretical contributions of these two republican builders. |
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| ISSN: | 0291-3798 2117-590X |