摘要
By two major speeches in the name of the Committee of Public Safety on 25 December 1793 （5 niv6se an lI） and 5 February 1794 （17 pluvi6se an II）, Robespierre reconsidered the definition of the revolutionary government and proposed a genuine ＂theory＂ of it. Strangely, these interventions were prononced after the organization of this government by Saint-Just and Billaud-Varenne. The aim oft his article is not to propose a new overview of Robespierre＇s theory of revolutionary government, but to research why Robespierre considered the development of this theory necessary and how this theory was to be elaborated. To ask these questions is to retrace the birth of a genuine political category of ＂＇revolutionary government＂ which can be added to the classical categories： the democracy, the aristocracy, the monarchy and the despotism.
