The first French Republic : $b A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792Conaway, Horace Mann
History
The first French Republic : $b A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792
Conaway, Horace Mann
Constitutional history -- France; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Thesis (Ph. D.)
[40] Gomel in _Les Causes financières de la révolution française_, p.
113, gives the following quotation from a contemporary writer: “Le livre
de Necker sur _L’administration des finances_ produisit autant d’effet
que si l’auteur avait encore dirigé celles du royaume.... Des magistrats,
des juriconsultes, des militaires, des prélats l’étudieraient, non pour
devenir administrateurs, mais pour se rendre des censeurs redoubtables de
l’administration.”
[41] Rocquain, _L’ésprit rév._, 444.
[42] _L’Ancien Rég._, trans. by Henry Reeve, note 39, p. 273.
[43] A. Babeau, _La Ville sous l’ancien régime_, ii, 9; Reeve’s
translation of De Tocqueville, _Ancien régime_, notes 60-62, pp. 286, 287.
[44] Poole, _Illustrations of the History of Mediaeval Thought_, p. 242.
[45] _Ibid._, p. 267.
[46] E. d’Eichthal, _souveraineté du peuple_, 37-40.
[47] _Memoirs, Letters and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville_, i, pp.
254-260, 2 vols. London, 1861.
[48] Martin, _Histoire de France_, vol xv, 334.
[49] Martin, _Histoire de France_, 355.
[50] R. L. Corwin, _Entwicklung und Vergleichung der Erziehungslehren von
John Locke und Jean Jacques Rousseau_, Heidelberg, 1894; Vasille Saftu,
_Ein Vergleich der physichen Erziehung bei Locke und Rousseau_, Bucarest,
1889; David G. Ritchie, _The Social Contract_, in vi. vol. of _Pol. Sc.
Quart._; Jaeger, _Geschichte der sozialen Bewegung und des Socialismus
in Franckreiche_, vol. ii, 342, Berlin, 1890; Prof. J. Horning, _Les
idées politiques de Rousseau_, in J. J. Rousseau _jugé par les Génevois
d’aujourd’hui_, p. 135 _et seq._; also M. Jules Vuy in _Bulletin de
L’Institut National Génevois for 1883_, pp. 273-344; Rousseau et Locke,
_Henri Marion_; J. Locke, _Sa Vie et son Oeuvre d’après des documents
nouveaux_, Paris, 1893.
[51] Voltaire in a letter of April 2, 1764, wrote: “Tout ce que je vois
jeté les semences d’une révolution qui arrivera immanquablement, et dont
je n’aurai pas le plaisir d’être témoin.... Les jeunes gens sont bien
heureux: ils verront de belles choses.” Quoted in Martin, _Hist. de Fr._,
vol. xvi, 136. Malesherbes, in speaking to the king as the organ of the
_parlement_ in 1770, said: “You hold your crown, Sire, from God alone;
but you will not refuse yourself the satisfaction of believing that, for
your power, you are likewise indebted to the voluntary submission of your
subjects. There exist in France some inviolable rights, which belong to
the nation.” Quoted from _Remontrances de la Cours des Aides_, 1770, by
De Tocqueville; _Mémoires_, etc., i, 259-60. For Rousseau’s literary
influence, see Joseph Texte, _Jean Jacques Rousseau et les Origines du
Cosmopolitisme Littéraire_, Liv. ii, Paris, 1895.
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