Prerevolutionary

Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.

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But there are those within the senior ranks of the Party who count you among the heroes of the prerevolutionary cause.

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