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When the French Tried to be British: Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848
ISBN: 9780773577183
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: France -- Politics and government -- 1814–1830; France -- Politics and government -- 1830–1848;

The restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 was accompanied by the grant of the Charte - a written constitution modeled on what its authors imagined to be the contemporary British practice of parliamentary monarchy. A unique experiment, in effect it meant attempting to implement institutions and practices that had little basis in French history and culture and that, in Britain, had evolved slowly and largely without conscious planning.

J.A.W. Gunn is Sir Edward Peacock Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, Queen's University, and the author of Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought.J.A.W. Gunn is Sir Edward Peacock Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, Queen's University, and the author of Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought.