The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
558 Chapter XXIII into backing the wrong horse, paying British money to the “pures,” who were hardly more than conspirators, ins ...
French Directory between Extremes 559 of the Bourbons. Malouet, in London, thought that no sane or patriotic French- man could r ...
560 Chapter XXIII tions, however, like the polemics of Burke, rose above momentary questions to the level of a theory of knowled ...
French Directory between Extremes 561 Revolution, he said, “is only the beginning of a universal dissolution which the sect has ...
562 Chapter XXIII Södermanland, to be Jacobins or Illuminati. Of the Poles, he named no one but Kosciuszko. He knew of Genet’s a ...
French Directory between Extremes 563 And what was this misguided philosophy? It was man- worship, according to Barruel, the bel ...
564 Chapter XXIII tion of March 1797 former members of the Convention. They had duly chosen five other former members of the Con ...
French Directory between Extremes 565 alpine, and believed that neither true peace nor true republicanism would be safe until Br ...
566 Chapter XXIII these democrats expected an actual revival of the Constitution of the Year I, or would live under it peaceably ...
French Directory between Extremes 567 The Directory had twice violated the constitution on the plea of protecting it. Nor was th ...
CHAPTER XXIV THE REVOLUTION COMES TO ITALY The Italians want to unite and they want a revolution; they want the Emperor to rule ...
The Revolution Comes to Italy 569 “WORLD REVOLUTION” AS SEEN FROM PARIS, 1796 When the Directory came into being, France was sti ...
570 Chapter XXIV knowledge of each other’s existence. International revolutionism, far from being actually international, consis ...
The Revolution Comes to Italy 571 the government who hoped to recover Louisiana for France. This might mean Louisiana west of th ...
572 Chapter XXIV and discreetly encourage all anti- British, pro- French, democratic, or separatist feeling.^10 In October the F ...
The Revolution Comes to Italy 573 Moreau in that theater, and to “bring about the disappearance of the petty ani- mosities which ...
574 Chapter XXIV but only against states with which France was at war. “You understand,” wrote Delacroix to Cacault, “that it is ...
The Revolution Comes to Italy 575 immediately, ferreted out Babouvists in France, ordered Blauw and Valckenaer out of Paris, res ...
576 Chapter XXIV It seems at least equally likely that the French government turned against the Italian refugee patriots because ...
The Revolution Comes to Italy 577 to the Italian republicans, had they known of it. It reverted to classic principles of compens ...
«
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
»
Free download pdf