{"product_id":"9781681053417","title":"On the State of Europe before and after the French Revolution","description":"\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cp\u003ePyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures. This is a history of Europe around the time of the French Revolution, and the way the continent was affected (most obviously by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Given that it was written by a Briton, it has unmistakable bias in favor of the British and against the French, their historical enemy. From the intro”L’Etat de la France à la Fin de l’An 8, was an anonymous publication at Paris in the autumn of 1800. The Author was not long concealed, and he was generally known to have written under the auspices and authority of the French Government.The work itself betrayed its origin throughout. It was every where marked by the most inveterate enmity to this country; and was evidently written with a view to convert the nations of the continent to the same sentiment. It announced and explained a variety of plans for the gratification of the envy and hatred which it endeavoured to excite; and it ought rather to have been called A Dissertation on the Necessity and the Means of ruining England, than An Examination of the State of France.At any other period, such a production, though it might have been amusing to a very superficial politician, would hardly have excited the attention, much less required the answer, of a profound and enlightened writer. But it appeared at a time when certain unfortunate and unfounded prejudices against this country were at their highest pitch; and it was craftily designed to inflame that spirit of animosity which could alone give currency to its absurdities. Upon these grounds it acquired a degree of popularity, sufficient to induce a Prussian writer, whose talents have before been displayed in some excellent political works, to undertake the refutation of it.The following is a translation of this reply of Professor Gentz to Citizen Hauterive: but had the German been only valuable as an answer to the French publication, I certainly should have spared myself the pains of preparing it for the English press. It would have been a very superfluous labour in a country where the pamphlet that gave rise to it, had excited neither admiration nor argument.But the merits of Mr. Gentz’s work are not confined to the controversy before him. His State of Europe is something more than an occasional treatise: it has an independent and general character. And though the arguments and assertions of his adversary are completely disposed of, yet the ordinary spirit and defects of polemical writings have been carefully and judiciously avoided: a circumstance which does him the more honour, as he had received what might be esteemed just provocation from the French writer, who treated him without candour or respect in his allusions to some of his former productions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pyrrhus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182773485808,"sku":"9781681053417","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681053417_p0.jpg?v=1763692765","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681053417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}