Category: History - European
The following third and last part of the Origins of Contemporary France is to consist of two volumes. After the present volume, the second is to treat of the Church, the School and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society lik...
Personality and character during the Italian Renaissance and during the present time.--Intensity of the passions in Bonaparte.--His excessive touchiness.--His immediate violence...
8. Chapter 8How Napoleon comprehends the sovereignty of the people.--His maxim on the will of the majority and on the office of government.--Two groups of prominent and obvious desires in 1...
10. Chapter 10The assignment of right.--Those out of favor and the preferred under former governments.--Under the Ancient Regime.--During the Revolution.--French conception of Equality and Ri...
2. Chapter 2If you want to comprehend a building, you have to imagine the circumstances, I mean the difficulties and the means, the kind and quality of its available materials, the moment,...
9. Chapter 9Requirements previous to the Revolution.--Lack of distributive justice.--Wrongs committed in the allotment of social sacrifices and benefits.--Under the ancient Regime. --During...
11. Chapter 11The two Stimuli of human action.--The egoistic instinct and the social instinct.--Motives for not weakening the social instinct.--Influence on society of the law it prescribes....
12. Chapter 12Neither lips nor heart are capable of pronouncing the above invigorating and conclusive phrase after a silence of 30 years. That local society ought to be a private association,...
6. Chapter 6Precedents of the new organization.--In practical operation.--Anterior usurpations of the public power. --Spontaneous bodies under the Ancient Regime and during the Revolution.-...
4. Chapter 4Every human society requires government, that is to say an authority. No other machinery is more useful. But a machinery is useful only if it is adapted to its purpose; if not i...
5. Chapter 5Principal service rendered by the public power.--It is an instrumentality.--A common law for every instrumentality. --Mechanical instruments.--Physiological instruments.--Social...
7. Chapter 7[Footnote 2309: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893. I., 148 (in relation to the institution prefects...
1. Chapter 1The following third and last part of the Origins of Contemporary France is to consist of two volumes. After the present volume, the second is to treat of the Church, the School...