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Article: Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2000
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Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution, by Patrice Higonnet. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. 397 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
Any interpretation of the French Revolution must suggest how the liberal idealism of 1789 succumbed to the violence and dictatorship of the Terror in 1793-94. Explanations for the Terror inevitably involve some consideration of the Jacobin Clubs. Jacobin ideology, and its relationship to the Terror, is the subject of this stimulating book by Patrice Higonnet. The heart of Higonnet's argument is the claim that Jacobinism was a single liberal sensibility, with pre-revolutionary roots, ...