The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
538 Chapter XXII after the other Continental states had left it, were badly defeated in north Italy by the French. This defeat o ...
Mirage of the Moderates 539 the wife of Sir Gilbert Elliot, was astonished that the French émigrés insisted on getting back thei ...
540 Chapter XXII In the next year, 1796, in response to approaches by the Directory, Pius VI pre- pared a conciliatory letter, P ...
Mirage of the Moderates 541 investigation would be in order) that neither the Dutch Reformed pastors, nor the Anglican episcopat ...
542 Chapter XXII Agreeing in so much, the moderates of the emigration could not agree on what attitude to take toward the Direct ...
Mirage of the Moderates 543 its revolution.” But Montlosier’s arguments had little effect on those whom he most wished to persua ...
CHAPTER XXIII THE FRENCH DIRECTORY BETWEEN EXTREMES [The Extreme Right] There has been formed in Europe a league of fools and fa ...
French Directory between Extremes 545 selves might sooner or later be engulfed. Of similar views were many shopkeepers, recently ...
546 Chapter XXIII The Tribun du peuple, of which about 2,000 copies were printed, was sold both in the streets of Paris and by s ...
French Directory between Extremes 547 Babeuf and Buonarroti met in 1795 in a Paris prison, where they were confined by the Therm ...
548 Chapter XXIII The Conspiracy of Equals has always been looked back on with respectful inter- est by partisans of the modern ...
French Directory between Extremes 549 the seizure of power.” It is Soboul’s belief, which seems to be well founded, that the “po ...
550 Chapter XXIII combination of various anti- Directory activists, the “communism” may be no more than an excrescence.^10 The o ...
French Directory between Extremes 551 the French government,” said Buonarroti, “to aid the revolution in Italy by every possible ...
552 Chapter XXIII mented by the thought of an unmerciful class struggle, “a war declared between patricians and plebeians, betwe ...
French Directory between Extremes 553 It is impossible to imagine Robespierre (or Marx) using such language. Yet within a few we ...
554 Chapter XXIII could long live with a principle of equality in which differences of ability were called a “social scourge.” W ...
French Directory between Extremes 555 men of prominence in the regime of the Directory itself, men who did not make republicanis ...
556 Chapter XXIII nature of authority, principles so crude that they are the norms of savages, are now called by some of us ‘met ...
French Directory between Extremes 557 But the constitutional Right was repeatedly outflanked by the extreme Right. French royali ...
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