ebooks La vie de Mohamed (q): L'Islam et la vie du Prophète Mohamed (q) (French Edition) by Lamia Lanéche Ishak in History

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This book examines a decisive five-year period in the life of Jacques Pierre Brissot; one of the influential leaders of the French Revolution. An idealistic; somewhat naive journalist who became a member of the national assembly; Brissot championed the new American republic as an example for the French revolutionary government to follow. This book is not intended to serve as a biography of the Girondin leader; but rather to present an examination of his life between 1788; when he visited the United States; and 1793; when he was executed. As such; the narrative necessarily focuses on the events of the revolution as the ever-present background to Brissot's thoughts and actions. Both as a journalist and as a legislator; Brissot was consumed by the tumultuous events of the period under review. The book is based primarily on the publications; correspondence; and memoirs of Brissot; as well as materials from the Bibliotheque Nationale; the Archives Nationales; and relevant secondary sources. It also includes comparisons between Brissot's observations of America in 1788; published in 1791 as "Nouveau Voyage dans les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale; 1788;" and those of his countryman Alexis de Tocqueville in his widely read "Democracy in America;" which described his visit in 1831 and was published in 1835.