The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France : between the ancients and the moderns / / Rachel Hammersley.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hammersley, Rachel, 1974-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in early modern European history
• Physical Description: xi, 239 p.

Table of Contents

Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection -- Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbe Mably -- Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France. The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies ; The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism ; The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism ; The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalism -- English republicans and the French Revolution. Parallel revolutions : seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France ; The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay ; The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas.