La Révolution française dans l'historiographie turque (1789-1927)

Abstract

Faruk Bilici : The French Revolution in Turkish historiography (1789-1927). Turkish diplomates and chroniclers did not underestimate the role of the French Revolution and did more than just outline its immediate causes, consequences and repercussions as they greatly feared the spread of its harmful influence. As early as the first half of the Nineteenth Century, intellectuals and political leaders became interested in the history of the Revolution because of the values it carried with it and because of the principles of modernisation that could germinate from it. In the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century and in the early Twentieth Century, the French Revolution was taught and studied as a model for the thinkers and inspiring forces of the Young Turk movement.