Before the deluge : public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution / Michael Sonenscher.

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Sonenscher, Michael

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9781400827701
1400827701
1282129783
9781282129788

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before the deluge.DDC classification:

944.04 22

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DC138 .S57 2007eb

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Facing the Future; 2. Montesquieu and the Idea of Monarchy; 3. Morality and Politics in a Divided World; 4. Industry and Representative Government; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Summary: Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index.

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt.

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