French revolutionary calendar in english

#French revolutionary calendar in english series#

Such are the most recent additions to the history of the French Revolution. Lastly the works of AbbГ© Sicard have revealed in the clergy who remained faithful to Rome various tendencies, some legitimist, others more favourable to the new political forms, a new side of the history of the French clergy being thus developed.

#French revolutionary calendar in english series#

The 'SociГ©tГ© d'histoire contemporaine', founded under Catholic auspices, has published a series of texts bearing on revolutionary history.

Aulard the defence of Robespierre, in consequence of which he founded a new review 'Les Annales RГ©volutionaires'. Two years since, a schism occured in this school, M. Aulard, has published numerous useful documents as well as the review, 'La RГ©volution FranГ§aise'. The radically inclined historical school, founded and led by M. His works prove that the Revolution did not mark a break in the continuity of the foreign policy of France. Sorel has brought out the connection between the diplomacy of the Revolution and that of the old regime. The influence of freemasonry in the French Revolution proclaimed by Louis Blanc and by freemasonry itself is proved by the researches of M.

Augustin Cochin has quite recently studied the mechanism of the sociГ©tГ©s de pensГ©e in which the revolutionary doctrine was developed and in which were formed men quite prepared to put this doctrine into execution. Moreover he admirably demonstrated the mechanism of the local revolutionary committees and showed how a daring Jacobin minority was able to enforce its will as that of 'the people'. The philosopher, Taine, drew attention to the affinity between the revolutionary and what he calls the classic spirit, that is, the spirit of abstraction which gave rise to Cartesianism and produced certain masterpieces of French literature. The last thirty years have given us a new version of the history of the French Revolution, the most diverse and hostile schools having contributed to it.