Journal d'une bourgeoise pendant la révolution

The Journal d'une bourgeoise pendant la révolution ( French , German : "Diary of a citizen during the revolution") is a collection of written records from Rosalie Jullien, called Madame Jullien - the wife of Marc-Antoine Jullien - to her husband and hers Son for the most part from the years 1791–1793 at the time of the French Revolution .

Madame Jullien was an educated woman from the Dauphiné who went to Paris to raise her son and from there reported to her husband, who was elected deputy member of the Legislative Assembly . She later wrote to her son when her son was in England and on a political mission in Toulouse and her husband was a member of the convention in Paris.

It contains the famous sentence from her letter to her son of August 2, 1791 about current events:

“Mon pauvre ami, les loups ont toujours mangé les moutons, les moutons mangeront-ils les loups?
(Eng. My poor friend, the wolves have always eaten the sheep; will the sheep (this time) eat the wolves? ) "

The journal was edited by Édouard Lockroy and was published by Calmann Lévy (Paris 1881).

Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) emphasizes its importance in his work The Great Revolution 1789–1793 : “Si les lettres de madame Jullien peuvent être incorrectes dans tel petit détail, elles sont précieuses pour cette période parce qu'elles nous disent précisément ce que Paris révolutionnaire se disait ou pensait tel ou tel jour. ”(Eng. Even if Madame Jullien's letters can be incorrect in small details, they are valuable for this period because they tell us specifically about what was in Paris was said or thought on this or that day at the time of the Revolution. )

literature

• Journal d'une bourgeoise pendant la révolution , 1791–1793, edited by Édouard Lockroy. Paris: Calmann Lévy 1881, digitized
• Gustav Landauer : Letters from the French Revolution , Frankfurt am Main 1922, Volume I ( digitized version ) - contains excerpts translated into German
• Pierre Kropotkine : La Grande Révolution 1789–1793 . Paris 1909 (at Wikisource )
• Elias Canetti : Mass and Power . Claasen, Hamburg 1960 (section: 'Inverse Masses').

Web links

• Jean Sauvageon a créé la Société des amis de Rosalie and Marc-Antoine Jullien.

References and footnotes

1. ↑ : fr: Marc-Antoine Jullien (French)
2. ↑ Biographical information according to G. Landauer, I, 329 (partly verbatim).
3. ↑ Madame Jullien to her son: Letter of August 2, 1791 (in: Journal d'une bourgeoise pendant la révolution , 1791–1793, edited by Édouard Lockroy. Paris: Calmann Lévy 1881, p.28 )
4. ↑ : en: Calmann Lévy (English)
5. ^ Kropotkine, p. 367
6. ↑ Édouard Lockroy (French)
7. ↑ La Grande Révolution (French)