Considerations On The Principal Events Of The French Revolution

by Madame de Staël (creator)

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Genres: History, French Revolution, France, Politics

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1818

About the author

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.

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done with this experiment
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forgotten people are perhaps forgotten
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"It is of importance to repeat to those who are the advocates of rights founded on the past, that it is liberty which is ancient, and despotism which is modern."

"How can despotism fail to produce flattery, and how can flattery do otherwise than pervert the ideas of every human being who is exposed to it?"

"I must not, however, be understood as attempting the justification of Voltaire, or of the writers of the age who followed his steps; but it must be admitted that irritable characters (and all men of talents are irritable) feel almost always a desire to attack the stronger party: it is in such attacks only that we recognize the impulse of a bold and ardent mind."

"In fact, in following the course of events during the eighteenth century, we easily perceive that it was the aristocratic bodies in France that first attacked the royal power; not from any intention of overturning the throne, but from being pressed forward by public opinion, which acts on men without their knowing it, and often leads them on in contradiction to their interest."

"As far, therefore, as personal qualities went, the King and Queen might claim the hearts of their subjects; but the arbitrary form of the government, as successive ages had molded it, accorded so ill with the spirit of the times, that even the virtues of the sovereigns were overlooked amid the accumulation of abuses. When a nation feels the want of political reform, the personal character of the monarch is but a feeble barrier against the impulse."

[Craig Bolton]

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Germaine de Stael (2008)

[? · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

[Joebcn · Rating 5 out of 5]

obra maestra de interés histórico y para comprender el porqué de las libertades en el mundo moderno desde la óptica de quién vivió el antiguo régimen.