Before the Deluge
Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
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Word Count
107,000 words, Guess
Page Count
428 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7759128M
- ISBN-139780691124995
- ISBN-10069112499X
- OCLC Control Number69028342
- OCLC Control Numberbeforedelugepubl00sone
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006016623
- Goodreads557301
- LibraryThing3933960
Classifications
- LCCDC138.S57 2007
Description
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt.
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