Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. On the problem of the ideological origins of the French Revolution Part I. French History at Issue: 2. Memory and practice: politics and the representation of the past in eighteenth-century France 3. Controlling French history: the ideological arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau 4. A script for a French revolution: the political consciousness of the abbe Mably Part II. The Language of Politics at the End of the Old Regime: 5. French political thought at the accession of Louis XVI 6. A classical republican in eighteenth-century Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige 7. Science and politics at the end of the old regime 8. Public opinion as political invention Part III. Toward a Revolutionary Lexicon: 9. Inventing the French Revolution 10. Representation redefined 11. Fixing the French constitution Notes Index.

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