L'antiquité romaine durant la Révolution française et le premier empire napoléonien (avec étude de la colonne Vendôme)

Abstract

FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ANCIENT TIMES During the French Revolution and the First Empire, the Ancient history, and particularly the Roman times, seemed to have largely impacted many aspects in France.French revolutionaries were largely inspired by the philosophy of the Enlightenment which was influenced by the Ancient times like Roman and Greek antiquity. They brought to the fore the good side of these periods of time while hiding the bad ones.