Whereas many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French revolutionary historians tended to make a sharp distinction between the liberal revolution of 1789 and the Jacobin Revolution of 1793–4, the trend among recent generations of revolutionary scholars has been to view the Revolution as a self-contained process in which the developments of the later stages can be seen as being foreshadowed in the earlier or even pre-revolutionary stages. In recent years, this trend has been especially evident in the assertion of many influential revisionist scholars that the Jacobin dictatorship of 1793–4 and the Terror that accompanied it were rooted in pre-revolutionary “Rousseauian” ideology. For if the events of 1793–4 reflected a mature realization of pre-revolutionary ideology, then the events of the Revolution's earlier stages would logically fall into place as reflecting a less mature realization of the same ideology. As François Furet has written: “From the meeting of the Estates General to the dictatorship of the Committee of Public Safety, the same dynamic was at work; it was fully developed, though not yet supreme, as early as 1789.” Thus, for Furet: