Summary
Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution Birth of Democracy. Such a definition of the French Revolution has so much conceptual weight that no one can reject it, neither supporters nor opponents. Supporters find their baptism in it, opponents - building blocks for their suspicions. But both camps very early recognized the time gap that separated them in the French Revolution. The old regime was the inequality of the people and absolute monarchy; the rights of man and the sovereignty of the people appeared on the flag in 1789. This break most profoundly expresses both the philosophical and political nature of the French Revolution at the same time; he gives it the dignity of an idea and the property of a source; it is necessary to start again from it in order to understand that event, from that rupture as from a riddle not yet solved even after two hundred years of debates and works that sought to penetrate its secret.
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