By Otto Dann, John Dinwiddy
It has been virtually a truism of ecu background that the French Revolution gave a superb stimulus to the expansion of contemporary nationalism. This selection of unique essays in English units out to check intimately, for the 1st time, in what methods and for what purposes the period of the Revolution did see significant advancements during this appreciate in quite a few elements of Europe.
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The author maintained that Italy should be 'free, united and independent'. He saw only one obstacle to unification: the temporal power of the Papacy. The Pope, he declared, would have to give up the Papal States. 'Christ had no kingdom. ' L'Aurora reckoned that Italy should be divided into eighty departments, which would then be sub-divided into cantons, and those in turn into municipalities. At the head of the republic would be a 'senate' of five hundred members, which would sit in the The New Concept of the Nation 23 Vatican and be responsible for electing a president.
Between 1809 and 1814, at the height of Napoleon's power, Italy was still divided into three large states: the Kingdom of Italy, whose sovereign was Napoleon himself, with his sonin-law Eugene de Beauharnais as viceroy; the Italian departments of the French Empire; and the kingdom of Naples ruled over by Murat, the Emperor's brother-in-law. These states still included certain enclaves, such as the duchy of Lucca and Piombino, which belonged to Napoleon's sistfer Elisa Bacciochi, and the principality of Benevento which belonged to Talleyrand.
3 Universal Rights and National Interest in the French Revolution Florence Gauthier Did the Revolution of the rights of man mark, as is currently held in the historiography (especially that of France), the birth of what is generally called the nation-state? Did the ideals of the natural rights of man and the citizen lead to nationalism? If we are concerned with the question of national formation, there are strong grounds for maintaining that France existed as a nation for a long time before the Revolution and that this nation was the outcome of several centuries of feudal and then feudal-absolute monarchy.