%0 Journal Article
%T Introduction ¡ª Ruptures in revolution
%A Ir¨¨ne Herrmann
%J La R¨¦volution Fran£¿aise : Cahiers de l¡¯Institut d¡¯Histoire de la R¨¦volution Fran£¿aise
%D 2011
%I Institut d'Histoire de la R¨¦volution Fran?aise
%X On February 26 2011, during the so-called Jasmine Revolution, a Tunisian newspaper stated: ¡°A revolution is, by definition, a rupture with the past¡±. This interpretation is not new and tellingly confirms what dictionaries and encyclopedias suggest. Revolutions are always defined as radical changes and thus indeed evoke the idea of a rupture with the past, of a break in continuity. This seemingly obvious interconnectedness might be the reason why the link between rupture and revolution has nev...
%U http://lrf.revues.org/319