… runs from Alphonse Aulard in the late nineteenth century to Michael Kennedy and Raymonde Monnier in the late twentieth, credits the Jacobin clubs for many of the Revolution’s achievements. 2 According to this view, the clubs offered a kind …
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… with others. They spread the idea that the language of social harmony and virtue was intimately related to that of credit and exchange. Defining sociability as a commercial activity was therefore a political move. Papers suggested that …
… their parts. But for Thomas Moore, Sheridan worked very hard and for him, it was ‘the fate of Mr. Sheridan […] to gain credit for excessive indolence and carelessness, while few persons, with so much natural brilliancy of talents, ever …