Who Wrote The French Rhapsody

The French Revolution is of great significance in the world political history. As a part of political modernization tide in eighteenth century, the French Revolution is much more radical than the English and American ones during the same period, and trigger severe social unrest in France, its unique political culture produces a profound influence in subsequent countries.The French Nationality have distinctive political feature and are all get involve in the political insurrection of innovating the Ancient Regime. The radical political culture which overturns and recreates everything is unique even in the history of world wide revolutions. It is similar to a peculiar rhapsody which exists in people’s sense of space and shows up by literary and artistic works, clothing and attire, political slogans, idolatry phenomenon, vocabulary and grammar, and communication methods at that time.In the political culture of the French Revolution, the French nationality share a strong national identity, they are unanimous in fighting for their country such as struggling against the invasion of the ancient Europe, but they can’t have an agreement on support of a specific regime such as in favor of a monarchy or a republic, the Plain or the Montagnards. This indicates that different political communities own different political subcultures and use different symbols to express political views in the revolution political culture, but the revolution also shows a particular consistency tendency in a certain stage:the elite and the masses unanimously call for a thorough overthrow for everything, and then follow the best way, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which is issued as a programmatic document by the Great Revolution, to rebuild everything. The most convenient and effective way to achieve this political goal is violence. Both the people’s spontaneous armed resistance and revolutionary government’s "reign of terror" taken to stabilize the situation can interpret the revolution’s violent nature in a certain degree, the country runs into political rumors and slander while the society is filled with religious skepticism and very radical sense of anxiety, the social revolution which is too violent to halt brought enormous devastation, and the political culture of the revolution eventually exhibit characteristic radical style.This paper selects the elite community and the public community and starts the discussion along two time lines,before the outbreak of the revolution and then after, the main research is the concrete or abstract forms of these two different political subcultures, focuses are the abstract principles or specific forms which hidden in the way of the revolutionary language, literary and artistic symbols, clothing and attire features, political slogans, idolatry phenomenon, and vocabulary and grammar, with a view of explaining the radical political style from the political culture in the French Revolution.