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Has Adrien Lamourette varied in his judgment of philosophers, their role in the Revolution and the religious crisis? A historical approach, favouring strict periodisation and circumstantial factors, would tend to the yes, in the manner of the satire that in 1792 contrasts three Lamourette. The texts published before and after the events show obvious signs of continuity: Lamourette kept reflecting on a possible rapprochement between the two camps of ‘intellectual’ spheres, on a possible conciliation between clerics and philosophers, and more broadly on the link between religion and philosophy, making the Revolution the pivot of inclusive thinking which was however only sketched out in writing.