Project Gutenberg 2025-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 157 Le Bon, Gustave 1841 1931 Bon, Gustave Le Bon, Gustave le 12016574 La Révolution Française et la psychologie des révolutions $aParis :$bErnest Flammarion, $c1912. Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) "La Révolution Française et la psychologie des révolutions" by Gustave Le Bon is a historical and philosophical study written in the early 20th century. The book analyzes the nature of revolutions, focusing particularly on the French Revolution, through the lens of modern psychology. Its central topic is the exploration of how psychological factors—especially collective beliefs and unconscious mental mechanisms—shape the origins, development, and outcomes of revolutionary movements. Le Bon aims to challenge traditional rational explanations, emphasizing the profound influence of crowd psychology, ancestral instincts, and the power of belief over rational thought. The opening of the book begins with an introduction that reflects on the ongoing revision of historical knowledge and the uncertain understanding even among those who lived through revolutionary periods like the French Revolution. Le Bon asserts that many pivotal historical events remain misunderstood because previous interpretations neglected the psychological underpinnings driving human behavior. He reviews his earlier works on the psychology of peoples, crowds, and beliefs, then sets out his argument: revolutions, whether scientific, religious, or political, are largely dictated by non-rational forces such as emotion, mass contagion, and mysticism. The text offers detailed early comparisons between scientific and political/religious revolutions, illustrating how belief and passion override logic, and uses the history of the Reformation and the French Revolution as key examples. The opening sections present Le Bon’s thesis that true understanding of revolutions requires placing collective psychology at the center of historical analysis. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/larvolutionfra00lebo 20250319192132lebon 1912 FR Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr Revolutions Social psychology France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes DC Text Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Philosophy & Ethics 597173 2025-07-30T04:55:53.541264 text/html 568898 2025-03-26T19:22:41 text/html 464683 2025-07-30T04:56:01.501251 application/epub+zip 463841 2025-07-30T04:55:54.917249 application/epub+zip 348293 2025-07-30T04:55:54.203271 application/epub+zip 826795 2025-07-30T04:56:06.404176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 791734 2025-07-30T04:56:00.909236 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 550749 2025-07-30T04:55:52.472272 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 530774 2025-03-26T19:22:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17671 2025-07-30T04:56:06.569180 application/rdf+xml 15303 2025-07-30T04:55:54.408251 image/jpeg 2562 2025-07-30T04:55:54.304236 image/jpeg 383880 2025-07-30T04:55:53.591241 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia