History of Secret Societies and the Republican Party of France from 1830 to 1848
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
27.01.2026
Verlag
Spradabach PublishingSeitenzahl
790
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/4,8 cm
Gewicht
1059 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-909606-63-0
A political memoir in the guise of an indictment, Lucien de La Hodde's History of Secret Societies and the Republican Party of France from 1830 to 1848 reads like a police report drafted by a disappointed philosopher. La Hodde, himself once a conspirator in the demi-world of republican cabals, here tears away the beguiling masks of the very men whose whispered oaths and candlelit plots once lured him into action. The result is a book as acrid as it is illuminating: a gallery of petty agitators, paper revolutionaries, and 'heroes' who collapse on contact with daylight. Rather than an exaltation of oppressed patriots, La Hodde offers a comedy of self-importance. The societies he names-The Rights of Man, The Seasons, and other self-canonising fraternities-appear not as incubators of liberty, but as clubs of feverish rhetoricians, mistaking declamation for courage and intrigue for history. In this exposé he displays the cold relish of a surgeon. Yet beneath the bone-dry satire lies serious instruction. To La Hodde, the revolutions of his age perished precisely because their architects were governed less by national conviction than by vanity, quarrel, and perpetual performance. He exposes political romanticism as a kind of counterfeit currency: glittery in circulation, worthless when weighed. His disdain is therefore both personal and moral; he seeks to rescue truth from the theatrical passions of would-be redeemers. For the modern reader, this is no antiquarian curiosity. In an era pullulating with petty, self-certifying activists prophesying doom and proclaiming their 'historic mission', La Hodde offers a tonic against ideological melodrama. He reminds us that movements proclaiming universal emancipation often consist of idlers barely capable of governing their own resentment.
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