Volume 49, Number 7 · April 25, 2002
Rousseau and Revolution
By Jean Starobinski
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution
by James Swenson
Stanford University Press, 320 pp., $55.00; $19.95 (paper)
La Politique de la Terreur: Essai sur la violence révolutionnaire, 1789–1794
by Patrice Gueniffey
Paris: Fayard, 376 pp., F25.00
After taking power by his coup d'état of 19 Brumaire (November 9, 1799), General Napoleon Bonaparte made no attempt to soften his sarcasm about the 'principles of liberty' that had been promulgated by the Revolution. According to the memoirs of Madame de Staël:
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