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L'ouvrage de l'homme politique et philosophe irlando-britannique Edmund Burke Réflexions sur la Révolution de France (en anglais Reflections on the Revolution in France) a été publié pour la première fois le 1er novembre 1790. L'auteur s'y livre à une critique de la Révolution française, qui venait alors de commencer

Reflections on the Revolution in France was read widely when it was published in 1790, although not every Briton approved of Burke's kind treatment of their historic enemy or its royal family. His English enemies speculated he either had become mentally unbalanced or was a secret Catholic, outraged by the democratic French government's anti-clerical policies and expropriation of Church land. The publication of this work drew a swift response, first with

Edmund Burke wrote his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, at the very onset of the French Revolution. Burke saw in the events in France the dangers of Revolution and presciently foresaw some of the worst excesses likely as a result of the governmental breakdown. He was a politician as well as a philosopher and man of letters and had accumulated a lifetime of experience pertaining to the subtle interplay of how a government is organized. He had uppermost in his mind the benefits

Reflections on the Revolution in France should not be read as history, however, but as a work of political theory that expresses a coherent point of view. On November 4, 1789, in an area of London