The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
458 Chapter XIX million men faced the foreign enemy. It was the first mass or “democratic” army, or at least the first above the ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 459 from on high. The section assemblies long practiced open voting. The ruling Com- mittee ...
460 Chapter XIX 1794 in the Convention, he took care to offer definitions of “true” democracy, which he said the Revolutionary G ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 461 hopeful for revolution elsewhere, turned to the idea, in modern terms, of revolu- tion ...
462 Chapter XIX Anacharsis Cloots, for example, who may well have been mad, had at first called himself the orateur du genre hum ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 463 The other “legions” and émigré groups, founded in 1792, were leading a troubled existen ...
464 Chapter XIX another to overthrow the ruling Committee—and so reported to Lord Grenville in England.^25 The Committee of Publ ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 465 opened at the Committee of Public Safety by Barère and Billaud- Varenne. They seized on ...
466 Chapter XIX As for Poland, the French had no contact with it, military or diplomatic. They would of course welcome Kosciuszk ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 467 ness; some politeness, but more civility. If you compare such a country with the region ...
468 Chapter XIX Vendée and at Lyon and other federalist cities. These sentences, in retribution for armed rebellion, made up alm ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 469 shared. It meant also patriotism or good citizenship, a subordination of private to pub ...
470 Chapter XIX of a sanction given to moral principles by a power superior to man.”^36 The value and even the truth of religion ...
Survival of the Revolution in France 471 The Meaning of Thermidor Thermidor has become a byword for the reaction in which revolu ...
472 Chapter XIX lution became a kind of miracle for the correction of social ills. The Convention even created, for future use, ...
CHAPTER XX VICTORIES OF THE COUNTER- REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE Quis scopus revolutionis Polonicae?... The aristocrats expect ...
474 Chapter XX aristocratic, which had already largely destroyed the work of Joseph II in the Hapsburg empire, and combined to a ...
Victories of the Counter-Revolution 475 yet, while remaining on guard, and pending further elucidation, an American may especial ...
476 Chapter XX ations. Only “nobles” could own rural estates and serfs; or, conversely, all persons qualified to own them were c ...
Victories of the Counter-Revolution 477 The conflict in Eastern Europe was not between social classes. Or, at least, social clas ...
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