MORELLET, André.

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Mémoires, sur le dix-huitième siècle et sur la Révolution; First edition of the memoirs of the French economist and philosopher André Morellet, a leading Enlightenment thinker, written mainly between 1797 and 1805 and published posthumously."Morellet clearly intends to communicate to later generations the message that the philosophes, who had sought to bring about gradual reforms, should not be accused of causing the excesses of the Terror... The first sixteen of Morellet's highly readable 33 chapters record his life story up to the summer of 1788... the next nine chapters are a personal documentary of the Revolution and the Terror, which swept away Morellet's hopes of reform, many of his friends, and the major part of his income... the last eight chapters concern Morellet's life after the fall of Robespierre" (Medlin, pp. 121-6).

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