« Ci-gît, enfin, un tyran ! », ou une épitaphe en tant que prophétie dans les Apologues modernes de Sylvain Maréchal (1789)

• Authors: Paweł Matyaszewski

Title variants

EN

“Here rests, at last, a tyrant” – an epitaph as the prophecy in Sylvain Maréchal’s Apologues modernes (1789)

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this essay is to analyse a forgotten work by Sylvain Maréchal, a French political writer of the Enlightenment. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, his Apologues modernes heavily criticize the socio-political system of the French monarchy of Louis XVI. The analysis of his work proves that the author does not limit himself to criticising the situation before 1789, but he clearly predicts events of the forthcoming revolution and the resulting change. One could say that, like a true prophet, he foresees the end of the monarchy as such and proclaims the arrival of a new social and political order, a universal republic, not only in France, but in Europe in general.

Keywords

EN

Sylvain Maréchal; Apologues modernes; French Revolution; Republic versus Monarchy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Romanica Silesiana
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-11

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Paweł Matyaszewski

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/RS.2021.20.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2085789