« J'ai regardé le volcan de la Révolution dans son cratère ». Les voyages à Paris d'Eduard Gans (1825-1835)

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“I looked into the crater of the volcano of the Revolution.” Eduard Gans’ travels to Paris (1825-1835), by Philipp LenhardBetween 1825 and 1835, the philosopher of law, co-founder of the Association for the Culture and Science of Judaism and close friend of Heinrich Heine, Eduard Gans (1797-1839), made several trips to Paris, where he observed the political, social and cultural consequences of the July revolution. He recounts his experience in France in several essays published in 1836 under the title Rückblicke auf Personen und Zustände. This contribution aims to show to what extent his French experience enabled Gans, who had converted to Protestantism in 1825, to define in all its complexity his plural identity in Vormärz Germany (the period between 1815 and 1848). It will also look at the cultural transfers that Gans mediated between France and the German states.