In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to political opponents. A sophisticated minority - including such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, and Guizot - recognized the need for something approaching the British political culture, but the wounds opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed. A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagreement that was the spirit of the British model had to await the Fifth Republic.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-477) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 320.944/09034
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-fr---
- ISBN
- 9780773535121 9780773577183
- LCCN
- JA84.F8
- LCCN Item number
- G85 2009eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- 1 electronic text (498 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00225570 (OCoLC)698431327 (CaOOCEL)433038
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- Introduction 16
- 1 Conflict and Its Management in the French Tradition: Pre-revolutionary Perspectives 24
- 2 Against Party: The Burden of the Past 75
- 3 Honourable Connections: Ultra-Royalism and Party Government 143
- 4 Fiévée: Paradoxes by Instalment 206
- 5 Constant and Company: An Almost-Loyal Opposition 270
- 6 Chateaubriand: The Literary Lion as Political Theorist 341
- 7 Doctrinaires: Politics of the Chair 410
- Conclusion 476
- Select Bibliography 484
- Index 492
- A 492
- B 492
- C 493
- D 497
- E 498
- F 498
- G 500
- H 501
- I 502
- J 502
- K 502
- L 502
- M 503
- N 505
- O 505
- P 506
- Q 508
- R 508
- S 509
- T 510
- U 510
- V 510
- W 511
- Y 511
