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Before the deluge : public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution /

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to de...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sonenscher, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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