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Hostis Humani Generis: Devils, Natural Right, and Terror in the French Revolution

The French have never quite known what to do with their Revolution. Their discomfort was painfully on display during the bicentennial, when politicians and historians struggled to find a suitable legacy to celebrate.¹ Was it possible to commemorate the birth of the French Republic while ignoring the violence of the Terror? Could the new era of political representation be distinguished from the ère du soupçon, which clung to it like a shadow? In the end, the official (and academic) response was to focus principally on a single political event, the proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and...