The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France

Between the ancients and the moderns

Rachel Hammersley

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781784991371
  9780719079320
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847797391
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Education Administration
• Index: History

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.

Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book focuses on a series of case studies, featuring such colourful and influential characters as John Toland, Viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau.

This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought, seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history, eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.

Index

absolute monarchy 2, 17, 33, 39, 55, 65, 66, 71, 77, 106–7, 155, 199

agrarian law 20, 190, 191

Akenside, Mark 124

Pleasures of Imagination 124

Alary, Pierre-Joseph 64, 69–70

Almon, John 105, 106, 144

America 2, 4, 33, 95, 100, 101, 102, 103, 114, 115, 117, 146, 155, 199

American republicanism 2, 4, 6, 7, 33, 201

American Revolution 6, 33, 95, 100, 102–3, 154–5, 158, 164, 198

Amsterdam 39, 40, 126

ancient constitution 67, 91, 145–6, 199

ancient republicanism 3, 6, 8, 78, 79, 86–9, 94, 124, 133, 194, 199, 201

see also classical republicanism

anticlericalism 17, 18, 56, 68, 90, 103, 126–7, 129, 133, 200

anti-monarchism 1, 43, 95, 113, 116, 176, 177, 194, 198, 201, 202–3

Argenson, René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’ 1, 2, 69, 71, 72, 198

Considérations sur le gouvernement ancien et présent de la France 71, 73

Mémoires 1, 71

Aristotle 23

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 137

atheism 123, 127, 128, 129, 133, 200

Athens 91

Aubert de Vitry, François-Jean-Philibert

J. J. Rousseau à l’Assemblée Nationale 162

Autri, comte d’ 70

Bailyn, Bernard 100

Baker, Keith Michael 5, 6, 86

balanced constitution

see mixed constitution

Barère, Bertrand 162

Baron, Richard 102–3, 113

Basnage de Beauval, Henri 36

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Real Whigs and Huguenots
• II Bolingbroke and France
• III Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France
• IV English republicans and the French Revolution
• Conclusion
• Appendix: French translations of English republican works, 1652–1801
• Bibliography
• Index