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[fre] Résumé : On a depuis longtemps reconnu le changement de signification subi par le mot «révolution» entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle : désignant à l'origine un mouvement cyclique, il en est venu à s'appliquer à une mutation radicale, un renversement du cours de l'histoire, du passé faisant table rase. Or les étapes de cette évolution restent mal précisées : les textes des philosophes ou des historiens du XVIIIe siècle, attentivement étudiés dans cette perspective, n'ont guère fourni d'occurrences convaincantes du sens nouveau. Au contraire, le discours religieux en fournit de nombreux exemples, ignorés jusqu'à présent. «Révolution» y désigne la rédemption de l'humanité pécheresse par l'Incarnation du Christ, la mort du paganisme et la fin de l'ancienne alliance pour instaurer un monde nouveau. [eng] Abstract : It has long been established that the french word «révolution» had undergone a complete change of meaning during modern times. Whereas it originally indicated cyclical movements, it has been applied to those radical mutations, which turn society and history upside down. However the stages in this process are not perfectly cleared up yet. The writings of Eighteenth Century french philosophers or historians have been carefully but vainly studied with the purpose of finding out some occurrences or the new meaning. On the other hand, many are provided by religious writers of the XVIIIth century, who were using «révolution» to describe the Redeeming of sinning Humanity by the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, as well as the destruction of paganism and the end of the Alliance of the Old Testament to establish a new world.
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Jean-Louis Quantin, 1991.
"Sur l'histoire religieuse du mot «révolution» au XVIIIe siècle,"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 10(1), pages 79-111.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1991_num_10_1_1596
DOI: 10.3406/hes.1991.1596
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1991.1596
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