The Revolution marks a transformation of the public. 2 If before 1789 the public to which the writers addressed was restrained, formed of known people, literature being as a whole, a literature of society, for the period which follows the public stretch more and more, there is whole nation ", whole people " point out Émile Faguet who characterizes it as "unsystematic", "vast «, "not prioritized", "not disciplined". It results from it the modification and gradual disappearing of what the previous centuries called "taste", and that always assumes: at the public, research and the wish of a contentment, determined by principles and by education, at the authors, the necessity to attain and not to exceed a medium aesthetics. The public being now willing to accept everything and complain continuously, for an insatiable curiosity, of new feelings, the writers free from any prejudice. From there in nineteenth century,the peculiar destiny of the theatre, the novel and the press.
This public and these writers have neither the same mind nor the same soul as nor those of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is difficult to specify and to categorize feelings and so complex ideas but they can establish some essential elements: the feeling of nature – they liked everything in nature, sea, mountain, forests, landscapes and exotic descriptions; religious inclination; archeological, historical, scientific curiosity – is translated by the research of local colour and determines the progress of minds towards truth, precise, definite; the taste of moral and social theses.
The Revolution is, in conclusion, the big historical event that provoques in France the ideological and definite break with classicism. A page of the history written by the fathers of the young peoples of the romantic generation had been turned.
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