AN IMAGE AND ITS METAMORPHOSES: THE TRANSYLVANIAN ROMANIANS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DURING THE 19TH CENTURY
AN IMAGE AND ITS METAMORPHOSES: THE TRANSYLVANIAN ROMANIANS AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DURING THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: An image and its metamorphoses: the Transylvanian Romanians and the French Revolution during the 19th century. In the present study, we intend to identify the metamorphoses that the image of the French Revolution had for the Transylvanian Romanians: from a negative one they had formed at the beginning of the 19th century through the Habsburg propaganda, to the new interpretations which throughout the century gave the new meanings to these events. In the second half of the 19th century, the liberal principles of the 1789 events were discovered and emphasized by the Romanian elite, becoming a part of the ideo-logy that stood at the basis of the national emancipation. The study of the multiple images of the French Revolution offers us a view regarding the transformations of the political thinking of the Romanian elite and its approach to the liberal values. In our research we used the press of the time, edited correspondence and ideolo-gical literature created by Romanian intellectuals.

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