Author : J.A.W. Gunn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577181
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Book Synopsis When the French Tried to Be British by : J.A.W. Gunn
Download or read book When the French Tried to Be British written by J.A.W. Gunn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Sta l, 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.