Abstract

On 10 August 1792, the Parisian sans-culottes surrounded the Tuileries Palace, overthrew the monarchy and helped to found a Republic. What might otherwise have taken centuries to achieve appeared to materialize within hours. During the preceding weeks, sans-culotte discourse began to coalesce around the belief that a demonstration of collective violence could enable France to bypass the ordinary laws of history and thereby realize, instantaneously, the revolutionary ideal of regeneration. It would create, in effect, a time warp. While historians are familiar with the perception of accelerated time that accompanied the Revolution, insufficient attention has been paid to ways in which time, as a discursive category, remained circumscribed by ideas of space. It was problematized as an interminable distance, a gulf or abyss, that separated present and future, nullifying the sense of limitless possibility unleashed in 1789. The process of political radicalization that culminated in 10 August was prompted not so much by a desire to quicken time as by a need to escape it altogether. In centring upon a micro-historical analysis of the time discourse that accompanied 10 August, this article reassesses the theories of temporality that have emerged in the historiography of the Revolution by foregrounding the perspective of lived experience.

中文翻译：

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法国大革命期间的时间扭曲*

摘要

1792 年 8 月 10 日，巴黎无套裤汉包围了杜乐丽宫，推翻了君主制并帮助建立了共和国。否则可能需要几个世纪才能实现的目标似乎在​​几个小时内就实现了。在过去的几周里，无套裤汉的话语开始围绕这样一种信念融合在一起，即集体暴力的示威可以使法国绕过历史的普通规律，从而立即实现复兴的革命理想。实际上，它会造成时间扭曲。虽然历史学家熟悉伴随革命而来的加速时间的看法，但对时间作为一种话语类别仍然受到空间观念的限制的方式关注不足。它被问题化为无尽的距离、海湾或深渊，这将现在和未来分开，消除了 1789 年释放的无限可能性的感觉。在 8 月 10 日达到顶峰的政治激进化进程与其说是为了加快时间，不如说是为了完全摆脱它。本文以对伴随 8 月 10 日的时间话语的微观历史分析为中心，通过突出生活经验的视角，重新评估革命史学中出现的时间性理论。