The invention provides a revolving electric device, which can enhance the retention reliability of a permanent magnet, which can suppress an induced voltage of neither load nor excitation and which can avoid the thermal demagnetization of the magnet due to a high-frequency magnetic field to be induced by a stator slot. In the revolving electric device, first and second permanent magnets (31 and 33) are so held by first and second yoke units (19 and 23) through first and second magnet pedestals (30 and 32) as to confront the inner circumference on the leading end sides of first and second pawl-shaped magnetic pole units (20 and 24). Moreover, the first and second permanent magnets (31 and 33) are magnetized and oriented oppositely of the direction of a magnetic field (34) generated by a field coil (14).