Commentary

• Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791 by Joan McDonald

  - Joan McDonald, Rousseau and the French Revolution, 1762-1791. (London: University of London, The Athlone Press, 1965).
  From the publisher: From 1789 onwards there sprang up a fervent revolutionary cult of Rousseau, and at each stage in the subsequent unfolding of the drama of the Revolution historians have seen Rousseau’s influence at work. Mrs McDonald seeks in this study… More