Word: jacobinism
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Neumann, while alive to the contemporary parallels in the story of the third Napoleon, does not go out of his way to stress them. He is more concerned with the pernicious effects of an inherited legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine...
...Jacobin," Benny hated and feared the way things were going in the U. S. "He wanted the people to govern themselves directly and express themselves explicitly. He wanted to see the disappearance from political life of all individual wills which were too strong, which could not yield to the desires of the masses." So he attacked Washington, vilified him to a fare-ye-well. Naturally Benny's enemies were legion. His rival journalist in Philadelphia, William Cobbett, expressed the settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles...
...point of view. Two excellent opportunities for indulging in such meditative thought are offered him this morning. At nine o'clock he will be found in Sever 23 listening to Professor Fay, whose brilliant reputation as the biographer of Franklin ensures a scholarly and entertaining lecture. His subject, "The Jacobin Spirit in France", will be considered from its relation to political thought and institutions. The next treat on the program will come at twelve o'clock in Sever 2 when Professor Friedrich lectures on "Nationalism in International Relations." The treatment of the subject is bound to be interesting and will...
...Jacobin Spirit in France", Professor B. Fay, Sever...
Three of the Due's ancestors were Marshals of France. Victor Claude. Prince de Broglie, his great-great-grandfather, served with Lafayette and Rochambeau in the American Revolution, was a Jacobin in the French Revolution. Opposing Robespierre, the "sea-green incorruptible," he died under the guillotine during The Terror...