Abstract
Corinne Gomez-Le Chevanton, The Trial of Carrier: political issues, collective pedagogy, and the construction of memory The trial of Carrier , opening on the 7 frimaire an III before the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, represented at once the end of a process that had compelled the conventionnels to define their relationship with the Terror of the year II by accepting his indictment, and the beginning of a new political phase, a break with the montagnard period, which aimed to anchor the Revolution on the principles of a liberal Republic. This trial is rich in symbols and major political issues, subjects well understood by part of the members of the National Convention as well as by the body politic; both would know how to use it as an immediate pedagogical tool as well as a means for the construction of memory. It enabled the Thermidorians to begin their seizure of power by the construction of the 9th Thermidor as an "event," and the formation of political alliances and ideologies that would later be consolidated.
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