"Misled people" or adults behaving as children - The literary discourse ofthe French Revolution and the 1793 popular uprising in the Vendee

In war against Europe, the Jacobin Republic was shaken by a civil war in 17 93. The well-known religious revolt in the Vendee was the most dangerous. T he revolutionary power was astonished about these rebellions which question ed its new democratic sovereignty. As a matter of fact, the people refuted in arms the Jacobin politics. The representation of the "misled people" all owed to excuse the people's rebellions and to justify the repression.