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

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 de...

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1. Verfasser: Sonenscher, Michael
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 415 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-402) and index.
ISBN:9781400827701
1400827701
1282129783
9781282129788

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