A virtue for courageous minds : moderation in French political thought, 1748-1830 /
Crăiuțu, Aurelian.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why moderation? -- In search of a lost archipelago -- The architecture of moderate government : Montesquieu's science of the legislator -- The radical moderates of 1789 : the tragic middle of the French monarchiens -- Moderation and the "intertwining of powers" " Jack Necker's constitutionalism -- Moderation after the Terror : Madame de Staël's elusive center -- Moderation and "neutral power" : Benjamin Constant's pouvoir modérateur -- Moderation, "the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues".
Political science
Political science
Moderation