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Soon after the fall of the Bastille in 1789, the French aristocrat Charles-Jean-François Depont asked his impressions of the Revolution and Burke replied with two letters. The longer, second letter, drafted after he read Richard Price 's speech A Discourse on the Love of Our Country in January 1790, became Reflections on the Revolution in France .
Edmund Burke writes to a young French correspondent, Depont, who has asked for his views of the current revolutionary events taking place in France. Burke explains that he does not approve of the French Revolution, or the Revolution Society, which is in contact with France’s National Assembly and seeks to extend Revolutionary principles in ...
Oct 17, 2023 · Edmund Burke joined the Revolutionary discourse early on. His originally ambiguous position soon gave way to forceful condemnation. After writing letters to a French politician named Charles-Jean-François Dupont, Burke authored a pamphlet for British readers.
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, first published in 1790, is written as a letter to a French friend of Burke’s family, Charles-Jean-François Depont, who requests Burke’s opinion of the French Revolution to date.
Dec 5, 2012 · Charles-Jean-Francois Depont, a young French acquaintance, had written asking Burke for assurance that the French were, ‘worthy to be free, could distinguish between liberty and licence, and between legitimate government and despotic power’ (C, VI: 32).
- Edmund R. Burke
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Reflections was prompted when a French acquaintance, Charles-Jean Francois Depont, wrote to Burke in November 1789, seeking his opinion of recent events. On the same day, a radical dissenter, Richard Price, gave a speech to London’s Revolutionary Society, urging his audience to build on the principles of the previous century’s Glorious ...
He would write his Rights of Man in 1791 and 1792 to defend the French revolution and its ideals against Burke’s attacks. He accused Burke of seriously misunderstanding what was happening in France and of dramatizing the French Revolution for British patriotic and financial reasons.
