Published May 1, 1997
by Stanford University Press .
Written in English
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 452 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL7929001M |
| ISBN 10 | 0804728062 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780804728065 |
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of ” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By , to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of " is the French Revolution's best known utterance. By , to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states' various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. The eight essays in The French Idea of Freedom set the Declaration of the Rights of Man in its Old Regime context. Though they are scholarly papers focused on specialised topics, they fit together nicely to give a broad picture both of the immediate background of the Declaration and the deliberations of the National Assembly and of the deeper context of eighteenth century French politics. The French Idea of Freedom by Dale Van Kley, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.4/5(1).
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