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Author Sonenscher, Michael.

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

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 415 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and 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.
Contents 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.
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Subject France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes.
Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
Chronological Term 1789-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sonenscher, Michael. Before the deluge. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691124995 069112499X (DLC) 2006016623 (OCoLC)69028342
ISBN 9781400827701 (electronic book)
1400827701 (electronic book)
1282129783
9781282129788
9780691124995 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
069112499X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)