Cicéron, Tite-Live et Tacite témoins de la Révolution française dans un centon de l'an VIII (1800)

ABSTRACT:The present contribution is devoted to the Essais sur l'histoire de la Révolution française, a cento published in 1800 and written by two young students of the École des mines, Antoine Héron de Villefosse and Charles-François Durozoir. It sums up its editorial history, presents its contents, studies its sources, and discusses various methods used to ensure the coherence of the narrative, to stigmatize the Revolution, and to exalt Bonaparte as First Consul, namely omissions in the Latin text or the French translation, additions, adaptations, transitions from the specific to the general or from the general to the specific, and distortions of meaning.