Before the Deluge Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution |
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| Author:
| Sonenscher, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-14326-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $51.00 |
Book Description:
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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 in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness. This book examines these fears and the responses to them.
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 in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness. This book examines these fears and the responses to them.