Enlightenment virtue, 1680-1794 /

In a speech delivered in 1794, roughly one year after the execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre boldly declared Terror to be an 'emanation of virtue.' In adapting the concept of virtue to Republican ends, Robespierre was drawing on traditions associated with ancient Greece and Rome. But Repu...

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Other Authors: Fowler, J. E. (James E.) (Editor), Ganofsky, Marine (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Oxford, UK : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2020]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2020:03.
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: PN750 .E55 2020
 
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