Abstract:

The French Revolution was a moment when new conceptions of history and historiography were emerging and competing. The 1793 play, L’Heureuse Décade, uniquely stages the process by which a new history is created; it represents not the spectacle of history or current events, but the spectacle of a new historiography in the making. The play also supplies the French stage with its first historian-hero, as well as with a history play—and a notion of history and historiography—of a new kind. Yet to date the play has received no scholarly attention. This article reveals how L’Heureuse Décade puts forward a compelling paradigm of history—what we might call iterative history—that is neither backward-looking nor utopian, nor dialectical; rather, the play presents a complex rethinking of history’s relationship to the people, the everyday, and the future to posit a notion of history that lies ahead of France, not behind.

摘要：

法国大革命是新的历史和史学概念出现并竞争的时刻。1793年的剧作《L'HeureuseDécade》，是制作新历史的独特过程。它并不代表历史或时事的奇观，而是代表着一种新的历史学的奇观。该剧还为法国舞台提供了它的第一个历史学家英雄，以及一种新的历史剧以及历史和史学的概念。迄今为止，该剧还没有引起学术界的关注。本文揭示了L'HeureuseDécade如何提出令人信服的历史范式-我们称之为迭代历史-既不是向后看也不是乌托邦式的，也不是辩证的的；相反，该剧对历史与人民，日常生活和未来的关系进行了复杂的反思，提出了法国之前而不是后面的历史观念。