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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I recall, while reading the notes regarding a film about the French Revolution, that the director had said that the French still remain conflicted about the revolution. Not French, so no idea how true that is, and also aware that Les Miserables is post-revolutionary France, but it still deals with the same issues, so maybe there's something to it.

[(Anonymous)]

There were several revolutions. Les Misérables takes place during the 1830-1832 revolutionary riots and it was written after the 1848 revolution.
Regarding the 1789 revolution, though, there are several debates: was it really a revolution led by poor people or by bourgeois wanting to gain more power? could the Terror have been avoided? etc...
Some deliberately paint the revolutionaries (Robespierre, for one) as blood-thirsty pre-communists. Others want to justify their actions, and n popular culture, revolutionaries are certainly more romanticised than the monarchy, even in films about the monarchy during that time. But it's mainly a debate between historians and writers. A politically charged one, admittedly: in some areas of the country, where the counter-revolution was strong, you're more likely to find monuments and traces recalling the counter-revolutionaries, areas that are today rather more Catholic and rather more right-winged. In my area, exclusively made of poor farmers, we burned down almost every castle we could find. We are rather more left-winged and rather less Catholic, even today.