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Posted: 07 Sep 2024

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An undated engraving by the Augsburg artist Paul Jakob Laminit showing the storming of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789, a symbol of tyranny overthrown that was popular subject with German artists and writers in the early stagef of the French Revolution.

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The philosophers joined the writers in their enthusiasm, the established Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottfried Herder as well as the young Johann Gottlieb Fitche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The French Revolution, said Hegel, was a “glorious sunrise”. That was exactly the optic through which enlightened, cosmopolitan Germany initially viewed events in France. In reading clubs and masonic lodges, the early stages of revolution were celebrated as a “dawn” or “sunrise”, the triumph of light over dark, reason over unreason, liberty over despotism. The fall of the Bastille stuck an especially powerful chord. The large French literature on the event was eagerly translated, with its highly dramatic narrative of emancipation from tyranny. The sixteen-year-old Tieck, later a leading figure in German Romanticism, wrote a theatrical fragment on the fall of the Bastille called “The Prisoner.” ` page 142

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