The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789: The Cause of Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788027306145)

The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This volume is a study on the Revolution. The French people made, in 1789, the greatest effort which was ever attempted by any nation to cut, so to speak, their destiny in halves, and to separate by an abyss that which they had heretofore been from that which they sought to become hereafter. For this purpose, they took all sorts of precautions to carry nothing of their past with them into their new condition; they submitted to every species of constraint in order to fashion themselves otherwise than their fathers were; they neglected nothing which could efface their identity.

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve
ISBN-10: 8027306140
ISBN-13: 9788027306145
Publisher: E-Artnow
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2020
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d