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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, who Have Distinguished Themselves During the Progress of the Revolution. A New Edition, with Corrections and Additions. Vol. I. ...
Author: Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, who Have Distinguished Themselves During the Progress of the Revolution
Author: Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic
Author: Sir Richard PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution
Author: Alyssa Goldstein SepinwallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.
Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic
Author: Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic and of Other Eminent Characters, who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the Revolution
Author: Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, Who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the Revolution (Classic Reprint)
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333615925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Excerpt from Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, Who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the Revolution The Editor of this volume of Biogra phical Anecdotes, prefents it to the pub lic with fome degree of confidence. Whatever may be its \literary merit, it at leaft po 'e 'es, with refp'eet to materials, the recommendation of Novelty. No Work, embracing the fame objeet, has yet appeared either in this Country, or on the Continent: it is therefore obvious, that the colle tor can have been little indebted to the labours of contemporaries, and may, Without prefumption, lay claim to 'public \attention on account of the originality of his information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Republic, and of Other Eminent Characters, who Have Distinguished Themselves in the Progress of the Revolution
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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