EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGES OF «REVOLUTIONARY» AND «TERRORIST» IN SPY PROSE: TOWARDS THE QUESTION OF A NEW GENRE HYBRIDIZATION

The article examines the first part of Baron de Bazancourt’s feuilleton novel “Montagnard, or Two Republics. 1793–1848”, dedicated to the era of the Great French Revolution and published in 1850 in the monarchist newspaper L’Assemblée nationale. The article also focuses on the literary and historiographic context: works of art (O. de Balzac, J. Sand, A. Dumas) and historical works (A. Thiers, F.-O. Mignet, J. Michelet, A. de Lamartine, L. Blanc), which Bazancourt had to build on or, at least, take into account the existence of in the process of artistic interpretation of revolutionary events. The aforementioned literary texts and historical studies advanced the idea of ​​the regularity of the Great French Revolution, which contradicted the ideological tasks that the monarchist Baron de Bazancourt set for his novel. As a result, the novelist found himself in a situation where he had to draw factual material from well-known historical works, but at the same time formulate sometimes directly opposite conclusions; this forced him to look for ways to radically rethink the historical material already introduced into reader circulation.