The despoliation of the Strasbourg Cathedral during the Jacobin Terror of 1793–94 has long been considered a high point of revolutionary iconoclasm, which manifested for some the anti-enlightened nature of the Terror regime and the violence inherent in the French Revolution itself. The hybrid space—linguistic, cultural, and political—in which these vandalizing acts took place, however, brings to the fore the problem of Franco-German cultural transfer and its politics of emotion as a significant, yet previously untapped, interpretative layer. This article explores the emotional vocabularies used by both French and German commentators, which substantiated their divergent stances regarding historical consciousness, aesthetic sensibility, and national identity in the debate on the legitimacy of revolutionary violence. It argues that while it contributed to the denouement of intercultural transfer in the German-speaking sphere, the vandalism debate also had long-term consequences for German communal identity formation in a sentimental key.

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凝视大教堂的人：审美教育、道德情操和德国对法国革命暴力的批判，1793-1794

在 1793-94 年雅各宾恐怖袭击期间对斯特拉斯堡大教堂的掠夺一直被认为是革命破坏偶像的高潮，这对某些人来说体现了恐怖政权的反开明性质和法国大革命本身固有的暴力。然而，这些破坏行为发生的混合空间——语言、文化和政治——使法德文化转移问题及其情感政治成为一个重要的、但以前未开发的解释层面。本文探讨了法国和德国评论员使用的情感词汇，这些词汇证实了他们在关于革命暴力合法性的辩论中关于历史意识、审美敏感性和民族认同的不同立场。