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9781108025515

An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution from Its Commencement to the Year 1792

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    9781108025515

  • ISBN10:

    110802551X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-02-03
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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James Mackintosh (1765-1832) was a Scottish lawyer, liberal philosopher, politician, journalist and historian. His most famous work, Vindiciae Gallicae (1791), was a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution. Burke considered it the best answer to his essay, and, together with Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, the most significant. However, subsequent events in France caused Mackintosh to reconsider his views on the French Revolution, and he later became an admirer of Burke. He argued for gradual democratic reform in England to prevent radical upheaval. The Historical Sketch, based mainly on French sources, was published in 1792, and outlines the origins of the French Revolution and its course until the start of that year. Mackintosh argues that differences in the French and British constitutions could explain why violent revolution had broken out in France but not in Britain.

Table of Contents

The author partly espouses Mr. Burke's sentiments
The rise of sovereignty in France
The latter years of the reign of Lewis XV detested and ridiculed
The effects of the American war in France
The difference between England and France briefly stated
The factions classed in three great divisions
The first open act of violence committed in Paris
Conclusion of the king's speech at the opening of the States-General
All government at an end in the city of Paris
The Bastille taken by storm
Reflections on the distressing situation of the queen of France
The National Assembly alarmed at these horrid excesses
All titles existing in France abolished for ever
The oaths taken by the king, people, and army
Appendix
Remarks on the National Assembly
The royal family treated as criminals
The Assembly dissolved
Remarks on the new Republic of America
Appendix
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