In the last decade or so, there has been an outpouring of empirical work on specific subgroups of women, sometimes discussed within an expanded framework of citizenship. French Revolution, the adoption of different historiographical perspectives has had a major impact on how they understand it. Address correspondence to Suzanne Desan, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706. (Alternately, one can view 1788 as the aristocratic revolution, 1789 the bourgeois revolution, and 1792/3 the popular revolution). Passionate in his concern for the poor and in his interest in the fears and hopes of revolution, he (while reasonably historically accurate) is often more concerned with conveying his impression of the hopes and aspirations of people (and his opposition to ossified ideology—"formulas" or "Isms"—as he called them) than with strict adherence to fact. 1 Historians have always been aware of widespread resistance to the Revolution. Ideal Masculinity and Male Sociability in the French Revolution, 1789–1799,” in French Masculinities: History, Culture, and Politics, ed. Jennifer Heuer and Anne Verjus, “L’invention de la sphère domestique au sortir de la Révolution,” Annales historiques de la Révolution française (2002): 1–28. How did women and men conceptualize their gender identities in different arenas from the military to the marketplace? ed. Chapter 1.2.I. Joan B. Landes offered the most influential early version of this interpretation in Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY, 1988). Tackett also has several works focusing on Reign of Terror, The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (2015), and the psychology behind the paranoia affecting the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror. Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810(Berkeley: UC Press, 1991). B. Shank finds that 21st century trends include a broader range of topics regarding the effects of the Revolution, and a more global perspective. history writing for neoliberal times” and for a “globalizing present.”10, But other politics are also at play. By the year 2000, many historians were saying that the field of the French Revolution was in intellectual disarray. Written during the Restoration, when the tricolor flag and singing the Marseillaise were forbidden, the book praised the principles, leaders and accomplishments of the 1789 Revolution; the clear heroes were Mirabeau, Lafayette, and other moderate leaders. 11 Eric Hazan, A People’ s History of the French Revolution (London: V erso, 2014), 4-83. The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). Les femmes publiques dans la cité républicaine (1789–1804) (Paris, 2016); Katie L. Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (NY, forthcoming at Oxford University Press); Kathryn Elizabeth Marsden, “Married Nuns in the French Revolution: The Sexual Revolution of the 1790s,” (PhD diss., University of California-Irvine, 2014); Janet Polasky, Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (New Haven, 2015); Elizabeth Colwill, “Freedwomen’s Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue,” in Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830, ed. Lefebvre was inspired by Jaurès and came to the field from a mildly socialist viewpoint. "The outcome of 'our' French Revolution was very different from what actually happened in the 18th century, but at the end of the game, students had to reflect on their experience and write a paper describing and analyzing why what happened in our role-playing game would have been unlikely, if not impossible, in the 18th century. His most famous work was Quatre-Vingt-Neuf (literally Eighty-Nine, published in 1939 and translated into English as The Coming of the French Revolution, 1947). The historiography of the French Revolution stretches back over two hundred years, as commentators and historians have sought to answer questions regarding the origins of the Revolution, and its meaning and effects. Reading time 16 minutes. See also the interview of Haïm Burstin, Ivan Ermakoff, William H. Sewell, and Timothy Tackett in “Protagonisme et crises politiques: Histoire et sciences sociales,” Politix 28 (2015): 131–65. On March 4 2011, the French historian Reynald Secher discovered documents in the National Archives in Paris confirming what he had known since the early 1980s: there had been a genocide during the French Revolution. His Penser la Révolution Française (1978; translated as Interpreting the French Revolution 1981) was an influential book that led many intellectuals to reevaluate Communism and the Revolution as inherently totalitarian and anti-democratic. Borrowing from the Romantics for imagery (the introduction closely follows that of Michelet's "History..."), "Citizens" also argues against the Romantics' belief in the necessity of the Revolution. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. He also headed the French government in 1871 which suppressed the Paris Commune. Email: Search for other works by this author on: © The Author(s) 2018. La démocratie exclusive et la différence des sexes (Aix-en-Provence, 1989); Joan Wallach Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Cambridge, MA, 1996). In it he established the conservative stream of opinion, wherein even the revolution of July 1789 went "too far". Bolden 9 Les femmes de Beaumont-en-Périgord pendant la Révolution française (Rennes, 2015). The trajectory of gender history in the 1990s and early 2000s is well known. Historiography, the writing of history, especially the writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particular details from the authentic materials in those sources, and the synthesis of those details into a narrative that stands the test of critical examination.The term historiography also refers to the theory and history of historical writing. Arguably, this tendency has been further encouraged by transnational historians who are working to humanize global or international dynamics and give them vibrant, personal texture.9 And in a thoughtful 2016 article on “Narrating the Age of Revolution,” Sarah Knott suggests that scholars of revolution across the Atlantic World have moved toward writing “situational narrative” that “privileges historical contingency.” Reactive behavior and particular circumstances, rather than ideology, shape the politics of individuals. From 1886 he taught at the Sorbonne, trained advanced students, founded the Société de l'Histoire de la Révolution, and edited the scholarly journal La Révolution française. “Les affaires d’état sont mes affaires de coeur.” Rosalie Jullien, une femme dans la Révolution. For work on the family, see notes 3, 17, 22 above. The British historian Thomas Carlyle, who wrote his own history of the French Revolution, complained that it "was far as possible from meriting its high reputation", though he admitted that Thiers is "a brisk man in his way, and will tell you much if you know nothing." Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, “Citizenship, the French Revolution, and the Limits of Martial Masculinity,” in Gender and Citizenship in Transnational Perspective, Rachel Fuchs and Anne Epstein (New York, 2016), 19–38. As she documents how commanders and female soldiers most often ignored the decree, Godineau reflects, “The gap is often large between theories, practices, and the norms based on [gender] representations.”16 Analyzing that space and the interaction between gender ideology and on-the-ground practice stands at the heart of much recent work on women and gender in the revolutionary era. Pascale Barthélémy and Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, “Sous la citoyenneté, le genre,” Clio. Journal of the History of Ideas 79.2 (2018): 221-242. French Revolution, also called Revolution of 1789, revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first climax there in 1789—hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789,” denoting the end of the ancien régime in France and serving also to distinguish that event from the later French revolutions … [23] Les armées révolutionnaires (1968, translated as The People's Armies in 1987) is his most famous work. "[26], Lynn Hunt, though often characterized as a feminist interpreter of the Revolution, is a historian working in the wake of the revisionists. The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution is a conventional description of the results of a number of separate policies conducted by various governments of France between the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming the basis of the later and less radical laïcité policies. His most famous work is his Origines de la France Contemporaine (1875–1893). He challenges the ideas about nobility and bourgeoise in Becoming a Revolutionary (2006), a "collective biography" via letters and diaries of the third estate deputies of 1789. All rights reserved. "Fifty Years of Rewriting the French Revolution: Signposts Main Landmarks and Current Directions in the Historiographical Debate,", Friguglietti, James, and Barry Rothaus, "Interpreting vs. Understanding the Revolution: François Furet and Albert Soboul,", Hutton, Patrick H. "The role of memory in the historiography of the french revolution.". For the revolutionary era, she ascertains that when soldiers (or their relatives) petitioned for emancipation from military service, they posited that men could fill their masculine duties as citizens in nonmilitary ways: “civic usefulness, familial responsibility and sensitivity to others’ suffering” could be just as important as soldiering. For Brian Joseph Martin, revolutionary fraternity paved the way for homosocial friendship and affection as a hallmark characteristic, even a military strategy, of the Napoleonic army. Colwill, “Freedwomen’s Familial Politics”; Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge, MA, 2012); Jennifer L. Palmer, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic (Philadelphia, 2016). Aulard – 1891 (for more than thirty years), Disch, Lisa. John McManners, Jean Egret, Franklin Ford and others wrote on the divided and complex situation of the nobility in pre-revolutionary France. Introduction; Origins of the Revolution The former focuses on the creation of a new democratic political culture from scratch, assigning the Revolution's greatest meaning here, in a political culture. 21 Other works have demonstrated that republican marriage played a pivotal role in defining manhood and male citizenship, notably Claire Cage’s book on married priests and Anne Verjus’s work on how discourse and family law positioned the family as the fundamental structure for imagining and enacting politics. She explores their social profile and analyzes the fluid, new popular sexual culture of revolutionary Paris. This scholarship often encompasses both the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Politically, the governmental structure of the Revolution moved from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy to a republic and finally to an oligarchy. Sarah Knott, “Narrating the Age of Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. Guillaume Mazeau, Le bain de l’histoire. He cites heavy use of the Internet, resources such as the H-France daily discussion email list,[20] and use of digital sources to scan through massive amounts of text. He recognized the complications that prevented the Revolution from fulfilling all its ideal promises – as when the legislators of 1793 made suffrage universal for all French men, but also established the dictatorship of the Terror.[16]. But it wasn’t as a woman that I made war; I made war as ‘un brave,’” as a courageous and good soldier.1 With her intriguing words, she points toward questions at the heart of current approaches to gender in the revolutionary era. Take as an example Lindsay Parker’s biography of a Jacobin wife, Rosalie Jullien. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com, This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (, Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy, Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight For Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920, https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model, Special Forum: The French Revolution is Not Over, Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. Caroline Fayolle, La femme nouvelle. The views of historians, in particular, have been characterised as falling along ideological lines, with disagreement over the significance and the major developments of the Revolution. Public politics became a male domain. Chapter 1.1.I. Ten years. Instead his work was aimed at fellow scholars and researchers. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution, it was restored as a division of the Institut de France in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Nationality: British. Political Cause: During the eighteen the Century France was the centre of autocratic monarchy. Femmes, Genre, Histoire 20 (2004): 1–16, quote 12. The revolution took place in 1789 to 1799; this was a period were the nation of France took charge and overthrew the existing monarchy. Aulard's famous four volume history of the Revolution focused on technical issues. The latest scholarship recognizes limitations on women’s formal political power but focuses attention instead on women’s creativity and the malleability of gender identity, both in France and in the colonies. Denise Davidson, for example, has situated and examined the writings of gender theorists, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, and the Marquis de Condorcet, within a larger international dialogue and shown how feminism and abolitionism were linked in France.25. Cf. Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson (Ithaca, NY, 2013), 101–10; cf. Madame de Xantrailles cross-dressed as a male soldier to serve in seven revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. (Paris, 2017); Clyde Marlo Plumauzille, Prostitution et Révolution. (DOC) Recent Historiography of the French Revolutionary Terror | Jay Eisenberg - Academia.edu Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. It is ostensibly a narrative of "Persons" and "Events", and more in the tradition of Carlyle than Tocqueville and Lefebvre. Plumauzille, Prostitution et Révolution, quote 371. Forgetting the Faithful: R.R. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Influenced by Alexis de Tocqueville and Augustin Cochin, Furet argues that Frenchmen must stop seeing the revolution as the key to all aspects of modern French history. He took the lead in training advanced students in the proper use and analysis of primary sources. He professionalized scholarship in the field, moving away from the literary multi-volume studies aimed at an upscale general public, promoting special political ideals, that had characterized writing on the Revolution before the 1880s. Prof. Existing scholarship has often focused on the family, or on artistic and literary approaches to the incroyables,26 but it is striking that new work on the political dynamics and legacy of these periods, as discussed by Paul Hanson in this forum, has by and large not made gender analysis integral to its debates. ", Rebecca L. Spang, "Paradigms and Paranoia', For a summary of the older studies see Alfred Cobban, "The Beginning of the French Revolution", sfn error: no target: CITEREFCastries1983 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFChisholm1911 (. A propos des femmes soldats de la Révolution et de l’Empire,” Politix 74 (2006): 31–48. Profession(s): Historian, academic Books: The Crowd in the French Revolution, The Crowd in History, Revolutionary Europe: 1783-1815, Robespierre.. Perspective: Marxist-communist. Timothy Tackett in particular has changed approach, preferring archival research to historiographical dialectics. [32] His works include Interpreting the French Revolution (1981), a historiographical overview of what has preceded him and A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989).[33][34]. Taking a literary approach, this work does not fully engage with revolutionary politics or on-the-ground gender dynamics. The French Revolution created turmoil across the whole of Europe, via a series of events which continue to captivate and inspire massive debate. He continued to research along these lines, publishing The Great Fear of 1789 (1932, first English translation 1973), about the panic and violence which spread throughout rural France in the summer of 1789. ", Douthwaite, Julia V. “On Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Finding Our Way through Revolutionary Politics, History, and Art.”, Dunne, John. “The Continuing Controversy over the Etiology and Nature of the French Revolution.”Canadian Journal of History 16 (December 1981): 357–378. Within France itself, studying revolutionary women as collective actors fits in with the decades-long attempt—especially by historians associated with the Institut d’histoire de la Révolution française—to counter any leftover resonances of François Furet’s negative interpretation and prove the Revolution’s contemporary relevance as “a political laboratory” or a grassroots “apprenticeship in democracy”—older phrases but ongoing projects, invoked, for example, in the 2012 collection Pour quoi faire la Révolution.11, In this vein, in a very recent historiographic essay on gender, the authors Clyde Marlo Plumauzille and Guillaume Mazeau call on historians to not simply seek out the “romantic illusions of a proto-feminism defended by a few heroines.” Instead, we should “pay attention to those millions of ordinary women, who using their discretion, readjusted gender relations [in everyday life] without having wished for it, or foreseen it.”12 Along these lines, Plumauzille has just produced a rich archival study of Parisian prostitutes. Much of this work arose in dialogue with au courant approaches in fields such as the histories of capitalism, sexuality, or the transatlantic world. Several noblewomen led troops against the Republic and attained mythic status as “amazons.” And as Dominique Godineau has illustrated, individual female soldiers could have multiple motivations to join the army: to escape poverty or abuse, follow a husband into battle, express patriotism and win glory, and/or play with their gender identities. [17] His major publication was La Révolution française (1957, translated and published in English in two volumes, 1962–1967). Lived: 1910-1993. Une histoire politique des hommes et des femmes à l’époque révolutionnaire (Paris, 2010). But by and large, they were more interested in using the new civil records to guarantee the legal status of their children than in following these new marriage models. Decolonization Featured Book Historiography Intellectual History Middle Eastern History. In her book on race and intimacy among mixed race families in Old Regime La Rochelle and Saint-Domingue, Jennifer Palmer shows how the family could become a site for contesting racial hierarchy or reshaping it in surprising ways, especially in the metropole. [25] Its narrative- while massive- focuses on the most visible leaders of the Revolution, even through its more "popular" phases. Lindsay A. H. Parker, Writing the Revolution: A French Woman’s History in Letters (NY, 2013); Cf. This brief survey of recent work reveals multiple arenas for investigating and conceptualizing gender in the revolutionary era. In a coauthored book, she and Denise Davidson use family letters to ask how this conjugal dynamic operated in practice and to probe what Mazeau and Plumauzille highlighted: revolutionary challenges to the gender dynamics of couples that no one especially sought out or anticipated. 12 Hazan, A People’ s History of the French Revolution , 6, 255-257. Jean-Paul Bertaud traces an evolution of the virile ideal among soldiers: the valiant, politicized citizen-soldier of the Revolution morphs into the honor-driven, glory-pursuing Napoleonic soldier—still a patriot but differently so. Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele, and Jane Rendall (Basingstoke, UK, 2010), 71–89; Godineau, “De la guerrière à la citoyenne”; David Hopkin, “The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,” in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790–1820, ed. The three main causes of French revolution are as follows: 1. Dominique Godineau, “De la guerrière à la citoyenne. Provocatively, Knott also claims that this “renewed empiricism” is “socially inclusive but politically quietist . Kim, Minchul. By the year 2000, many historians were saying that the field of the French Revolution was in intellectual disarray. This Marxist interpretation is shown to be invalid by the research of the past several decades. In 1793, some female slaves married recently freed men to win emancipation. His other major work is When the King Took Flight (2004), a study of the rise of republicanism and radicalism in the Legislative Assembly in 1791/2. Numerous works develop his republican, bourgeois, and anticlerical view of the revolution. As such, there is a vast range of literature on the topic, much of it involving specific methodologies and approaches. The following selection combines introductory and general histories with a few more specialized works. What followed was a situation where the revolution and its perpetrator took control of the government. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, dedicated a 2016 issue to “Citoyennetés” across the centuries and across the globe. Sean Quinlan, “Men without Women? [27] In the latter study she works with a somewhat Freudian interpretation, the political Revolution as a whole being seen as an enormous dysfunctional family haunted by patricide: Louis as father, Marie-Antoinette as mother, and the revolutionaries as an unruly mob of brothers. His broad interpretation argued: Aulard's historiography was based on positivism. Jean-Clément Martin notes that counterrevolutionary women sometimes joined men on the battlefield without concealing their gender identity or perhaps even highlighting it. [15], Aulard's books favored the study of parliamentary debates, not action in the street; institutions, not insurrections. Tarrow, Sidney. This skilfully and persuasively argued work interprets the Revolution through a Marxist lens: first there is the "aristocratic revolution" of the Assembly of Notables and the Paris Parlement in 1788; then the "bourgeois revolution" of the Third Estate; the "popular revolution", symbolised by the fall of the Bastille; and the "peasant revolution", represented by the "Great Fear" in the provinces and the burning of châteaux. Here is an emblem of that shift: In France, Christine Fauré—who in the 1980s had written a book called Democracy without Women—by 2006, was calling for new attention to “la prise de parole des femmes.” Fauré’s special issue of the Annales historiques de la Révolution française featured a parade of vocal female journalists, salonnières, and authors.5. It is the oldest of the five académies of the institute. Academics in Historiography of the French Revolution - Academia.edu View Academics in Historiography of the French Revolution on Academia.edu. In France, conspiracy theories were rife in the highly charged political atmosphere, with the Abbé Barruel, in perhaps the most influential work Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1797–1798), arguing that Freemasons and other dissidents had been responsible for an attempt to destroy the monarchy and the Catholic Church. Around 1990, various scholars built a powerful paradigm: they argued that the Revolution excluded women from politics and created a private sphere of female domesticity. Annie Duprat has just published an edited volume of Jullien’s letters. The historiography of the French Revolution stretches back over two hundred years, as commentators and historians have sought to answer questions regarding the origins of the Revolution, and its meaning and effects. This approach to the Revolution seems very much in dialogue with current trends in gender historiography in France more broadly. The piece also explores emerging research in the history of revolutionary masculinity. The French Revolution was a huge event in European history, one that shaped the way the French government worked forever. Jean-Paul Bertaud, “Military Virility,” in A History of Virility, ed. [28], François Furet (1927–1997) was the leading figure in the rejection of the "classic" or "Marxist" interpretation. Looking at modern French Communism he stressed the close resemblance between the 1960s and 1790s, with both favoring the inflexible and rote ideological discourse in party cells where decisions were made unanimously in a manipulated direct democracy. "The Historiography of the French Revolution," in A. Goodwin, editor, The, Minchul, Kim. Published by Oxford University Press. In a slightly different vein, work on women bearing arms has emphasized the malleability of identity and motivation and suggested that the same issue could hold different resonances for different actors. It seems crucial to continue to put gender history and the transnational turn into greater dialogue with one another by building on the approaches mentioned above and fashioning new zones of study. In addition, researchers seek to put revolutionary scholarship in dialogue with other au courant fields, such as the history of sexuality, capitalism, or the culture of war. As citizen-workers, they pressured the state for access to market stalls or a fairer form of price controls. Guillaume Mazeau et Clyde Marlo Plumauzille, “Penser avec le genre: Trouble dans la citoyenneté révolutionnaire,” La Révolution française. . Chroniques de la vie familiale à l’époque de la Révolution et de l’Empire (Paris, 2011). Aulard - Founded the Société de l’Histoire de la Révolution and the bimonthly review Révolution française. Unusual figures, from Marie-Antoinette to cross-dressed women, carried “a huge amount of cultural baggage”; so, analyzing marginal behavior produces understanding of mainstream gender norms and dynamics.7 Most broadly, this trend toward exploring subgroups in action mirrors the revolutionary field as a whole: cultural constructionist approaches now share the stage with greater focus on contingency, individual motivation, and close attention to the day-by-day, play-by-play dynamics of revolutionary politics. Alain Corbin et al., trans. Academie Francaise, French literary academy, consisting of 40 members, established in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu. Exciting new work so far seems to have two countervailing tendencies that are not always in sync: Some scholars situate masculinity within family dynamics. Studies History, French Revolution, and Jacobinism. ADVERTISEMENTS: Causes of French Revolution: Political, Social and Economic Causes! "How could Hannah Arendt glorify the American Revolution and revile the French? Gerald J. Cavanaugh. Annie Duprat has just published an edited volume of Jullien’s letters. Another historian working in this tradition is Keith Michael Baker. These insights provide a deeper look into how and why this event happened. Suzanne Desan, Recent Historiography on the French Revolution and Gender, Journal of Social History, Volume 52, Issue 3, Spring 2019, Pages 566–574, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy079. When her claim for a veteran’s pension was refused in 1805, she protested, “I was a woman when I took up [arms] again against the Prussians. The French Revolution… But after the Terror, especially during the Napoleonic era, she withdrew into the family, traumatized by the twists and turns of revolutionary politics and violence. It is a romantic work, both in style and viewpoint. On integrating gender into world history, see Antoinette Burton, A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles (Durham, NC, 2011), Chapter 3. The book played a notable role in undermining the legitimacy of the Bourbon regime of Charles X, and bringing about the July Revolution of 1830. Schama concentrates on the early years of the Revolution, the Republic only taking up about a fifth of the book. William Doyle, professor at Bristol University, has published The Origins of the French Revolution (1988) and a revisionist history, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (2nd edition 2002). The coeditors—Africanist Pascale Barthélémy and classicist Violaine Sebillotte-Cuchet—observe, “Today it is no longer a question of ONE citizenship but of citizenships in the plural, political but also social, economic, and cultural.” They suggest that “social citizenship” includes access to social rights but also refers to “engagements, mobilizations, forms of resistance, arts de faire.” Beyond its “juridical dimension,” social citizenship “should be understood as the ‘subjective experience of political engagements.’”14 In other words, like some gender historians of the Revolution, they broaden the analysis of “citizenship” as a concept by widening the lens beyond legal demarcations of citizenship from above and by asking how actors themselves define it from below in word and action. [6] It was less appreciated by British critics, in large part because of his favorable view of the French Revolution and of Napoleon Bonaparte. "[citation needed]. 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