Abstract: During the summer of 2009, the communist newspaper L’Humanité published daily a narrative portrait of a figure of the French Revolution. Through an analysis of these portraits, this paper aims to study the relationship between history, journalism and activism. For L’Humanité commemorating the French Revolution remains a revolutionary commitment. But alongside texts inspired by Marxist and Robespierist tradition, other voices arose as testimony to an open debate on the heritage of the French Revolution and its historiography.
