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By Doina Pasca Harsanyi

Every conflict has refugees; each revolution has exiles. many of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the loss of life of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an strange crew who didn't. Doina Pasca Harsanyi appears on the American adventure of a gaggle of French liberal aristocrats, early individuals within the French Revolution, who took look after in Philadelphia throughout the Reign of Terror. The ebook lines their course from enlightened salons to innovative activism to next exile in the United States and, ultimately, again to govt posts in France—illuminating the ways that the French test in democracy was once knowledgeable by way of the yankee experience.

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