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4 Bolingbroke’s French associates

Abstract

Bolingbroke's role in disseminating republicanism and the commonwealth tradition ideas in France has never been fully explored. This chapter focuses on this neglected aspect of Bolingbroke's influence in France. In particular, it pays attention to Bolingbroke's associates at the Club de l'Entresol, many of whom were struggling with similar questions and coming up with similar solutions to his, and to two of his French acquaintances, Henri de Boulainvilliers and Montesquieu, both of whose ideas are such that they could even be described as proponents of a French version of the commonwealth tradition.

Abstract

Bolingbroke's role in disseminating republicanism and the commonwealth tradition ideas in France has never been fully explored. This chapter focuses on this neglected aspect of Bolingbroke's influence in France. In particular, it pays attention to Bolingbroke's associates at the Club de l'Entresol, many of whom were struggling with similar questions and coming up with similar solutions to his, and to two of his French acquaintances, Henri de Boulainvilliers and Montesquieu, both of whose ideas are such that they could even be described as proponents of a French version of the commonwealth tradition.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Abbreviations xii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I Real Whigs and Huguenots
  8. 1 From English republicans to British commonwealth men 14
  9. 2 The Huguenot connection 33
  10. Part II Bolingbroke and France
  11. 3 Viscount Bolingbroke 54
  12. 4 Bolingbroke’s French associates 64
  13. 5 A French commonwealthman 86
  14. Part III Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France
  15. 6 The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies 100
  16. 7 The British origins of the chevalier d’Eon’s patriotism 110
  17. 8 The British origins of the baron d’Holbach’s atheism 123
  18. 9 The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat’s revolutionary radicalism 137
  19. Part IV English Republicans and the French Revolution
  20. 10 Parallel revolutions 154
  21. 11 The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay 174
  22. 12 The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas 185
  23. Conclusion 198
  24. Appendix 205
  25. Bibliography 208
  26. Index 231
The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
This chapter is in the book The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847793041.00012

Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Abbreviations xii
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I Real Whigs and Huguenots
  8. 1 From English republicans to British commonwealth men 14
  9. 2 The Huguenot connection 33
  10. Part II Bolingbroke and France
  11. 3 Viscount Bolingbroke 54
  12. 4 Bolingbroke’s French associates 64
  13. 5 A French commonwealthman 86
  14. Part III Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France
  15. 6 The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies 100
  16. 7 The British origins of the chevalier d’Eon’s patriotism 110
  17. 8 The British origins of the baron d’Holbach’s atheism 123
  18. 9 The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat’s revolutionary radicalism 137
  19. Part IV English Republicans and the French Revolution
  20. 10 Parallel revolutions 154
  21. 11 The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay 174
  22. 12 The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas 185
  23. Conclusion 198
  24. Appendix 205
  25. Bibliography 208
  26. Index 231
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