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The Attack on Feudalism in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Attack on Feudalism in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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First published in 2006. Feudalism is normally associated with
eighteenth-century France only in its more bizarre survivals, as in
The Marriage of Figaro, when his seigneur claims the rights to
spend the first night with the bride. If feudalism menat no more in
the eighteenth century than a few quaint customs that could tickle
an audence at the Comedie Francaise, why did French writers attack
it so furiously? The author suggests that contemporary writers saw
remnants of the feudal regime as important less in themselves, than
as symbols of an attitude of mind which the 'enlightened' among
them would no longer tolerate. Instead of representing the ideas of
the eighteenth century through the eyes of a few outstanding
writers, Dr Mackrell has tried to reconstitute the intellectual
climate of the ancien regime from the works of largely unknown
historians, jurists, economists and others. In this way he
illuminates the rich texture of eighteenth-century French thought,
without which the ideas of Voltaire, Montesquieu and even Rousseau
lose much of their meaning. This study breathes life into the
fierce controversies that shook the Age of Reason long before the
outbreak of Revolution.
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