EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Claude Joseph Rouget De Lisle, Arc De Triomphe, Natural And Legal Rights
Document Summary
Written by claude joseph rouget de lisle in 1792 for french soldiers marching off to war against austria. 1849 painting of lisle singing the song. Adopted as anthem of republic by the national assembly in 1795. Got its title due to revolutionaries from the city of marseille marched to paris. Arc du triomphe in paris, commissioned 1806 after the french army under napoleon defeated prussia. The background to the french revolution: absolutism and its problems. Not just a faction in parliament but a class that attained hegemonic status. The french revolution was thus a bourgeois revolution, it involved the abolition of feudalism. The edict of 1789 - a performative speech act whose words enacted what they said. The culmination of a 200 year process that made capitalism the dominant economic form. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen. Declares the universality of human rights,but also serves to delimit the special realm of human beings within a state.
