In the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual
elites set out to refound the Republic and, in so doing, reimagined
the nature of the political order. They argued vigorously over
imperial expansion, constitutional power, personal liberty, and
public morality. In Reimagining Politics after the Terror, Andrew
Jainchill rewrites the history of the origins of French Liberalism
by telling the story of France's underappreciated "republican
moment" during the tumultuous years between 1794 and Napoleon's
declaration of a new French Empire in 1804.
Examining a wide range of political and theoretical debates,
Jainchill offers a compelling reinterpretation of the political
culture of post-Terror France and of the establishment of
Napoleon's Consulate. He also provides new readings of works by the
key architects of early French Liberalism, including Germaine de
Stael, Benjamin Constant, and, in the epilogue, Alexis de
Tocqueville. The political culture of the post-Terror period was
decisively shaped by the classical republican tradition of the
early modern Atlantic world and, as Jainchill persuasively argues,
constituted France's "Machiavellian Moment." Out of this moment, a
distinctly French version of liberalism began to take shape.
Reimagining Politics after the Terror is essential reading for
anyone concerned with the history of political thought, the origins
and nature of French Liberalism, and the end of the French
Revolution."
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