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Nine years ago, in an introductory session for research fellows, visiting professor James Livesey ’94 declared to an audience of scholars that the French Revolution was a good thing. The then-controversial statement was met not with outrage, but with chuckles...
...This year, Livesey returns to his alma mater to teach students about the French Revolution—but this time, no one’s laughing...
...Livesey “has this new way of thinking about the Revolution,” says Goelet Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet, who taught Livesey when he was a grad student and remains close to the professor from the University of Sussex...
...book “Making Democracy in the French Revolution,” Livesey focuses on the Directory government of 1795 to 1799. He argues that this final stage of the Revolution, often underestimated by scholars, was actually at the root of the continental European model of democracy...
...Livesey argues that understanding the Revolution is crucial to distinguishing how the more egalitarian European model for democracy differs from the Anglo-American...