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Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" is considered by many to be a masterpiece of political analysis and a compelling rationale against the French Revolution. Originally written as a letter in response to a young Parisian and later expanded upon and published in book format in January 1790, the work has greatly influenced conservative and classic liberal intellectuals and stands as a powerful argument against violent revolutions,...
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What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today.
In 1790, the American diplomat and politician Governor Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted Experiment instead of Experience, and wander in the Dark because they prefer Lightning to Light." Although both revolutions professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality,...
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This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever, and as bank expropriators the inventors of the motorized "getaway." It is the story of how the anarchist taste for illegality developed into illegalism-the theory that theft is liberating in itself. And how a number of young anarchists met in Paris in the years before the First World War, determined to live their lives to the full, regardless of the consequences.
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«Le projet de nationalisation des banques et de grandes entreprises stratégiques de l'économie nationale a été un moment de grande passion et de grande tension politique dans notre pays. Pendant neuf années, les nationalisations avaient alimenté le débat politique, et cette idée avait galvanisé les socialistes jusqu'à l'arrivée de François Mitterrand au pouvoir. Que quelques années après leur mise en application, elles aient été complètement...
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The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the...
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May Picqueray (1898–1983) missed none of the major events in history during her lifetime. In 1921, she sent a parcel bomb (it exploded without casualties) to the US ambassador in Paris, to protest against the infamous conviction and death sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti. In November 1922 she was commissioned by the CGTU Metal Federation at the Congress to attend the Red Trade Union International in Moscow, where she stood on a table and denounced...
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Extrait: "C'est l'abus du mot démocratie qui m'a donné l'idée de ce livre. Le nom est dans toutes les bouches, tour à tour maudit et célébré pour les terreurs, les déceptions et les espérances qu'il fait naître. Toutes les écoles politiques, celles qui redoutent la démocratie, comme celles qui l'appellent de leurs vœux, s'accordent à reconnaître qu'elle est la grande promesse de la Révolution qui a clos le siècle dernier."
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Retour sur un symbole fort pour la France : son drapeau.
Après les attentats meurtriers qui ont frappé notre pays en 2015, il apparaît nécessaire de faire bloc autour de valeurs communes censées constituer le socle de la société française. Le drapeau tricolore en est un des éléments à la fois symbolique incontestable et incontournable. Malgré les divergences qu'il suscite, il n'en demeure pas moins un refuge solide et fort. Ces trois...
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France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic...
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Kadour Naïmi came from Algeria to study in France in 1966, four years after his country's liberation from colonial rule and two years before a different liberation movement exploded in France. Capturing the youthful enthusiasm and revolutionary earnestness of the young rebels he joined, Naïmi's account of May '68 is a memoir like no other. Spirited and inspiring, it manages transmit important historical lessons amid stories of sex, studies, and...
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extrait : "le 10 août 1792, l'Assemblée législative, en établissant le suffrage universel, fit de la France un État démocratique, et, le 22 septembre suivant, en établissant la république, la Convention nationale donna à cette démocratie la forme de gouvernement qui semblait lui convenir logiquement..."
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Extrait : "La France semble atteinte d'une grande déception à l'endroit de ses gouvernants. Après chaque Révolution nouvelle, — elle respire, elle espère. — Elle a manifesté sa volonté. — Elle croit que cela suffira. — Cela ne produit rien, et ce bon peuple de France aux illusions incorrigibles, s'en étonne."
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Gilles Kepel is professor of political science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books include Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés...
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Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, Tasca-also known as Serra, A. Rossi, André Leroux, and XX-was in fact a key political player in the first half of the 20th century and an ill-fated representative...
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Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and honorary professor at the Collège de France. His many books include Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections; Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist; and Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political...
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Extrait: "À vous, Bourgeois, l'hommage de ces nouveaux essais. Vous fûtes de tout temps les plus intrépides, les plus habiles des révolutionnaires. C'est vous qui, vers le cinquième siècle de l'ère chrétienne, par vos fédérations municipales, étendîtes les premiers le linceul sur l'Empire romain dans les Gaules."
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el caso Dreyfus, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Entender el marco histórico en el que se produce el caso Dreyfus, con una Francia recién derrotada contra Prusia en 1870, que vive una crisis económica y social que conduce a un antisemitismo latente
• Analizar el caso del capitán de artillería...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur l'affaire Dreyfus en moins d'une heure !
Fait marquant de l'histoire de France, l'affaire Dreyfus provoque de vifs débats en cette fin de XIXe siècle. La condamnation injuste du tristement célèbre Alfred Dreyfus sonne comme un signal d'alerte en plein cœur de la Troisième République et va même jusqu'à ébranler les fondements et les valeurs du pays des droits de l'homme. Mais comment pareille...
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Extrait: "Parmi les systèmes dont nous avons à retracer l'histoire, le premier, non seulement en date, mais encore en importance, est celui de Saint-Simon. Conçu, comme tous les autres, sous l'influence du sensualisme du dix-huitième siècle, produit par un esprit mobile et inconsistant, mais large et prime-sautier, il se développa péniblement durant l'Empire, recruta quelques adhérents dès le commencement de la Restauration et enleva, vers...
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Tantalizing prose' - TLS
Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts of the French Revolution ever to be published.
Written in the midst of his activities...
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