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"the exercise of linking language with the blood shed "

----- " S i the Revolution changed the rules of classical writing, because staff was still thinking it anyway and only passed the intellectual power to political power, the exceptional conditions of the fight occurred yet in the bosom of the great classical form, a revolutionary writing itself, not its structure, more academic than before, but by their approach and its double: exercise of language linking, as never before in history, to shed blood. The revolutionaries had no reason to want to modify the classical writing, did not think of any way put into question the nature of man, much less their language: a "tool" legacy of Voltaire, Rousseau and Vauvenargues could not seem compromised. The uniqueness of the circumstances formed historical writing revolutionary identity. Somewhere, Baudelaire spoke of 'emphatic truth of gesture in the great occasions of life. " The Revolution was, par excellence, one of those great occasions where truth, by the blood it costs, it becomes so heavy that it requires, to express themselves, the very forms of the amplification stage. The revolutionary writing was emphatic that this gesture was the only one to continue the scaffold daily. What today seems exaggeration was so far from reality. This script has all the signs of inflation was a precise spelling, language was never less unlikely and less impostor. This emphasis is not was only the molded shape of the drama, was also his conscience. Without that quirky draped himself all the major revolutionaries, which allowed the Gironde Gaudet was arrested in Saint-Emilion, declare, without being ridiculous because he was dying: "Yes, I am Gaudet. Executioner, do your job. Take my head the tyrants of the country. The ever did fade, cut, will make them even more pale, "the Revolution had not been fertilized this mythical event that any idea of \u200b\u200bhistory and future of the Revolution. The writing was revolutionary as the entelechy of the revolutionary legend, intimidated and imposed a civic consecration of the blood. "

Barthes, Roland, "The zero degree of writing" in The zero degree of writing, followed by new critical essays , Mexico, Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1997, pp. 28-29.