"Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (French pronunciation: {7f200b}[s̃{7f0292}yst]; 25 August 1767? 28 July 1794), usually known as Saint-Just, was a military and political leader during the French Revolution.
Ample contemporary illustrations accompany a survey of social, political, and military events surrounding the Revolution.
In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great ...
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the eighteenth century. Norman Hampson analyses the nature of these social conflicts within their political framework.
The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the 18th century. Hampson analyzes the nature of these social conflicts within their political framework.
" A mesure que les lumières s'accroissent, écrivait Condorcet, l'esprit humain semble s'agrandir et les limites se reculent ". Si le XVIIIe siècle a bien été ce moment privilégié d'une...