From Jacobin to Liberal (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

For this book R.R. Palmer has translated selections from the abundant writings of the versatile French political figure & writer Marc-Antoine Jullien, weaving them together with his own extensive commentary into an absorbing narrative of Jullien's life & times. Jullien's hopes & fears for the "progress of humanity" were typical of many of the French bourgeoisie in this turbulent period. His life coincided with the whole era of revolution in Europe & the Americas from 1775 to 1848: he was born in the year when armed rebellion against Britain began in America, he witnessed the fall of the Bastille as a schoolboy in Paris, joined the Jacobin club, took part in the Reign of Terror, advocated democracy, put his hopes in Napoleon Bonaparte, turned against him, then welcomed his return from Elba. Under the restored Bourbons, he became an outspoken liberal, rejoiced in the revolution of 1830, had doubts about the July monarchy, welcomed the revolution of 1848 and died a few weeks before the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as president of the 2nd Republic. Drawn from books, pamphlets, reports, letters, book reviews, magazine articles, poems, private notes & memoranda, Jullien's comments are supplemented here by letters that his mother wrote during the early years of the French Revolution & by articles by Jullien's collaborators in the Revue Encyclopdique. In Palmer's hands, these selected materials from a now forgotten life vividly portray France's transition from revolutionary republicanism & the Terror thru the Napoleonic years to the more placid liberalism of the 19th century.