ABSTRACT
In particular, Franois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution, trans. by Elborg Forster and Mona Ozouf, War and Terror in French Revolutionary Discourse, in The Journal of Modern History. One of the most remarkable aspects of that discourse was the immense effort dedicated to its propagation and the variety of media employed to that end. The ideologically charged Jacobin discourse of hate was moderated by the Jacobins own idealization of war as liberation as well as by their preoccupation with the internal enemy rather than the external one. Nevertheless, despite its devaluation by the Jacobins and its appropriation by the royalists, the concept of honour as a motivational force never entirely disappeared from the military culture of the Revolution and it underwent a significant renaissance after Thermidor. The French Revolution mass mobilization of society and representation of war as a conflict of irreconcilable ideologies threatened to sweep aside enlightenment constraints on warfare.
