The issue of emotions during the revolutionary period is a question of historical method and interpretation of the revolutionary event. In the light of a political project that began by immediately valuing the sensitive man and ended by dismissing him, the sequence questions the role of emotions not only in a revolution but also in a democracy. The concept of emotional dynamics enables us to emphasize the purpose of not only analyzing an emotion or an affect throughout the entire duration of the revolutionary period, but rather to pinpoint how certain emotions often succeed one another in the same way. Thus can we propose an interpretation in terms of rhythmics and no longer emotional chaos. The question of political emotions makes it possible to analyze how a society gives itself the possibility of its own emancipating transformation or a contrario its own submission. In this respect, it also affects social structures as well as representations, and ways of life as well as the ways of the law.