When the French Tried to be British: Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848 (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by J.A.W. Gunn (John Alexander Wilson Gunn)
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Overview: In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the parliamentary model, but their acceptance foundered on French reluctance to accord legitimacy to political opponents. A sophisticated minority – including such major figures as Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, and Guizot – recognized the need for something approaching the British political culture, but the wounds opened by the Revolution could not readily be healed. A more or less complete acceptance of the civil disagreement that was the spirit of the British model had to await the Fifth Republic.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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