Spectrums in the republic. On 19th-century French Republican political thought.

Authors

  • VLADIMIR LÓPEZ ALCAÑIZ

Keywords:

France, political ideas, 19th Century, republicanism.

Abstract

This article focuses on the French republican political thought at the beginning of the Third Republic. After Louis Napoleon’s ‘coup d’état’, the republicans tried establish strong intellectual foundations for a future republic. This needed to be a stable regime that would not repeat neither the revolutionary excesses of the Terror period, nor the authoritarian solutions of Bonapartism. Bearing this in mind, the intellectual founders of the Republic had to face the legacy of 1789 and, therefore, had establish a republican memory capable of integrating all those who, during most of the nineteenth century, had been lured by the revolution; namely, the mission was to face the spectres that threatened the republics in France.

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Published

2010-05-27

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STUDIES

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