原书及其作者 :法国大革命,起于捍卫人权、推翻君主专制,却通向了恐怖统治和军事独裁。这个过程值得警醒。 系列上一篇: What it started | 发端 ----- Chp6 Where it stands 1.A historical challenge —is revolution end? >p100 ‘The whole business now seems over’, wrote the English observer Arthur Young in Paris on 27 June 1789, ‘and the revolution complete.’ People would repeatedly make the same observation, usually more in hope than conviction, over the next ten years until Napoleon officially proclaimed the end of the Revolution in December 1799. Even then all he meant was the end of a series of spectacular events in France; he was to continue to export them for another sixteen years. Besides, the Revolution was not simply a meaningless sequence of upheavals. These conflicts were about principles and ideas which continued to clash throughout the 19th century, and would be reinvigorated by the triumphs of Marxist Communism in the 20th. Thus it still seemed outrageous to many French intellectuals when, in 1978, the hist...