French Revolution

Wordsworth only knew that the peace had failed, so he wrote about the French Revolution, “As it Appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement”:

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By the early nineteenth century, fears generated by the French Revolution had subsided and Catholic emancipation (1829) led to a campaign to end Jewish disabilities.

Britain: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2009

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the political culture of France remodeled Italy even more profoundly than its cuisine.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

By contrast the left, from the French Revolution onward, has argued for the rights of all human beings.

The New Face Of The Left 2007

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Kropotkin on the real French Revolution 2007

As France marks Bastille Day, the beginning of the French Revolution, President Jacques Chirac added his voice to those who are questioning Israel's motives here.

CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2006 2006

We don't know for sure that nobody will eventually emerge from the insurgency as a charismatic leader -- Bonaparte didn't emerge until about six years into the French Revolution -- but we're probably worse off without a centralized command.

Archive 2005-06-26 Steve Sailer 2005

More evidence, if such were necessary, that the political vocabulary, and habits of thought, that we all inherited from the French Revolution need to be junked.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

We don't know for sure that nobody will eventually emerge from the insurgency as a charismatic leader -- Bonaparte didn't emerge until about six years into the French Revolution -- but we're probably worse off without a centralized command.

Max Boot says the insurgents are bound to lose Steve Sailer 2005

Wagner and Nietzsche form a major part of our common Europe-rooted culture: the Nazi movement grew out of European history just as the French Revolution did.

ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994