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Les Deux Programmes De 1789: Programme National De Réforme Manifesté Par Les Cahiers Des États Généraux (French Edition) - Softcover

M. Boudot-Challaye

 
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Synopsis

Les Deux Programmes De 1789: Programme National De Réforme Manifesté Par Les Cahiers Des États Généraux : Programme De La Révolution Arrêté Par Mirabeau Dévoilé Par Chamfort : Règne De L'aristocratie De Paris Depuis Le 27 Juin 1789 : Avénement De La Démagogie Parisienne Le 18 Mars 1871 by M. Boudot-Challaye is a polemical historical examination of the French Revolution and its aftermath. The author contrasts the universal reformist wishes recorded in the cahiers of 1789 with a rival revolutionary program allegedly devised by Mirabeau and Chamfort, which, in the narrative, aimed to demolish established religion, monarchy, and traditional social hierarchies to erect a new secular order led by Parisian lawyers. Through a century-spanning account from the Revolution to the Paris Commune of 1871, the work traces generations of precursors and leaders—Mirabeau, Lafayette, the Girondins, the Montagnards, the Directoire, and the Bonapartists—arguing that an aristocracy of speech and law held power in Paris and corrupted politics, education, and religion. It surveys the alleged influence of Voltaire and Rousseau and condemns the demagogues who rose after 1789. The text culminates with reflections on the costs of revolution and a call for renewal rooted in tradition and faith.

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