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""The nineteenth century has an august mother, the French Revolution, who has this blood in his veins," writes Victor Hugo. From 1789 to the first world war, writers have continuously thought the Revolution to presnet. They have captured it in all genres and on all modes: doors by the evocative power of the imaginary, the black novel or the tale, the drama or the poem, the realistic story like the myth and the legend on competition the historiographical knowledge. The Revolution, before becoming a place of republican memory, crystallizes polemics on the meaning of history, the relationship of the individual to the future of the nation, the necessity of violence at work in the development of civilizations. Through the novels, plays or poems of leading authors (Chateaubriand, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Goncourt, Anatole France) and unknown writers, this book analyzes how the setting in fiction makes it possible to problematise and to model these decisive questions, which never cease to resurface even in our present." --Translated from back cover