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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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Table des matières:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. Industry and Representative Government; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.