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idealisation of revolution: French revolution as a pioneer + positivism --> idea of collective censorship

collective memory, historical reappropriation, republican synthesis --> cultural heritage
problematising the notion of "collective censorship" -- who are the agents/participants in the act of erasure

nation as child - in the picturebooks Clémentine Beauvais presents, the protagonists' political engagement goes along with their questioning their parent's authority -  naturalisation of the revolutionary impulse: private + public sphere, seems to be trivialized, as something innate

paradox of the revolutionary tradition, generational paradox - the revolution is in the order of things

hidden adults (Nodelman) -> the desire to instil a revolutionary spirit in young people's minds yet the republican synthesis induces the cyclical nature of the revolution
cultural heritage
the importance of symbols, representation, reinforcing narratives

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1789-1794
End of the Enlightenment and monarchy, will to destruct the past and start with a new present

Will to stop the monarchy and its arbitrary system --> justice must be ruled on texts of laws (eg. Declaration of Human Rights), citizenship will dominate (values of this revolution)

Ernest (1890): 'The French Revolution is the first of the humankind to take its own reins and direct itself': wrong --> two main revolutions before ("Atlantic revolutions" = English Revolution (1688-1689) and American (1775-1883)

Plus: idealization of the Revolution --> wrong it is not peaceful: beheading of the King + death of many men (eg. Robespierre and the Terror regime)

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student protests and strikes accross the country against capitalism, consumerism and De Gaulle's government - resulted in better working conditions and wage growth + a new social order: traditional institutions are questioned and wish for more liberal moral standards (sexual liberation, wake-up call on ecology, antimilitarism)

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Frenchness: - paradoxical importance of constant revolutions as part of the tradition
- the idea of a nation united as one, undifferentiated model of citizenship, sense of collective identity

Historicism: The idea that cultual inheritance, intellectual currents and values are linked to specific moments of history, that need to be put in context.

Teleology: p.111 'revolutionary impulse fuels towards freedom' --> study of the meaning?  causal relationship, but is it really the case in this article? Paradoxical tension between the idea of France's many revolutions participating in a teleological impulse towards the actualisation of France's "fundamental" values, yet at the same time exiting the kind of structured, linear conception of a teleological notion of history. Revolution is not only chaos, the destruction of a previously established order to install a new one, it is cyclical, literally a return to point 0: if a nation is in constant revolution, is it really progressing?

Positivism: republican synthesis -> the revolution is only celebrated when it succeeds

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Are these children really empowered in those picture books?
(compare to the other readings: in the picturebooks Beauvais describes, the children are reduced to metaphors/symbols for the nation, and the picturebooks seem to participate to a larger national project of indoctrination/celebration of the "revolutionary tradition")
To what extent do (French) citizens participate in collective censorship ?
What are the limits to this narrative of revolution? The French revolution was followed by the Empire (Napoleon) and a return to Monarchical rule, and May '68 did not lead to de Gaulle's resignation (he eventually resigned due to his discontent with the results of a referendum in 1969) --the picturebooks present sensationalised accounts of the revolutions and fail to bring nuance to these narratives