Before the Deluge : : Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution /

Before the Deluge : : Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution / / Michael Sonenscher.

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Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to de...

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Sonenscher, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Facing the Future
  • 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy
  • 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World
  • 4. Industry and Representative Government
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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