BOOK REVIEW: Tanguy PASQUIET-BRIAND, La Réception de la Constitution anglaise au xixe siècle: une étude du droit politique français (Bayonne: Institut universitaire Varenne, 2017) by Aurelian CRAIUTU (French Studies, LXXIII (2019), nr. 2, 335-336)

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First paragraph:

Ce qui caractérise particulièrement l’Angleterre, c’est le mélange de l’esprit chevaleresque avec l’enthousiasme de la liberté’, Mme de Staël wrote in her Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française. This combination had created a fortunate balance between order and liberty that made England appear as ‘un corps entier de gentilshommes’ (Mme de Staël, La Passion de la liberté (Paris: Robert Laffont, 2017), p. 742). Although the real country across the Channel differed markedly from the idealized image offered by Staël, it did not prevent her from recommending England as a political model for post-Revolutionary France.

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