The politics of patriotism in France (1770-1788)
—This article focuses on the language of patrie as it was employed from the 1770s to the 1780s in relation to the parlements. It was a complex and ambiguous rhetoric with roots in classical republicanism that was significantly modified in the 1740s and put to many uses. The study seeks to show how and why [...]
Why did the French revolution fall into chaos, while the American Revolution succeeded?
No doubt the American Revolution inspired the French to stage their own revolution- and some American founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, were sympathetic to the French Revolution. Yet whereas the American Revolution was success, the French revolution fell into chaos. What went wrong with the French Revolution? In a way France of the 1780s [...]