It took the form of a 365-page letter "to a gentleman in Paris," and began with an attack on the entry of the clergy into politics.
It took the form of a 365-page letter "to a gentleman in Paris," and began with an attack on the entry of the clergy into politics. It proceeded to criticize universal male suffrage and complete political equality (since the evils of the majority would be worse than those of a king), to praise religion, aristocracy, and hereditary monarchy, and to hail Louis XIV as "a mild and lawful monarch." "The age of chivalry is gone," it concluded, and with the events in France, "the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." FTP, name this 1790 work by Edmund Burke.
It took the form of a 365-page letter "to a gentleman in Paris," and began with an attack on the entry of the clergy into politics.
{Reflections on the Revolution in France}