Posted on 01/20/2021 4:33:36 AM PST by otness_e
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (French: Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du Jacobinisme) is a book by Abbé Augustin Barruel, a French Jesuit priest. It was written and published in French in 1797-98, and translated into English in 1799.
In the book, Barruel claims that the French Revolution was the result of a deliberate conspiracy or plot to overthrow the throne, altar and aristocratic society in Europe. The plot was allegedly hatched by a coalition of philosophes, Freemasons. The conspirators created a system that was inherited by the Jacobins who operated it to its greatest potential. The Memoirs purports to expose the Revolution as the culmination of a long history of subversion. Barruel was not the first to make these charges but he was the first to present them in a fully developed historical context and his evidence was on a quite unprecedented scale. Barruel wrote each of the first three volumes of the book as separate discussions of those who contributed to the conspiracy. The fourth volume is an attempt to unite them all in a description of the Jacobins in the French Revolution. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is representative of the criticism of the Enlightenment that spread throughout Europe during the Revolutionary period.
Barruel’s Memoirs is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution. It became popular immediately after it was published and was read and commented on by most of the important literary and political journals of the day. The four volumes of the text were published in a number of languages and created a debate about the role of the philosophes, their ideas, and the Enlightenment in the French Revolution. They remained in print well into the 20th century and contributed to the historical interpretation of the late 18th century in France. The success of Barruel's work is testimony to the anti-philosophical discourse that spread in the aftermath of the revolution. Barruel left behind a construction of the Enlightenment that was destined to influence subsequent interpretations. He wound accusations tightly around his foes and tied them into positions from which they could not escape. The text created a link between the Enlightenment and the Revolution and this connection remains a topic of historical debate.
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In a way, the crap Voltaire, D'Alembert, and Frederick of Prussia did is directly connected to the Long March through the Institutions by the Frankfurt School, not to mention John Dewey's "revolution" on Education. I even argue that Voltaire and especially D'Alembert's "contribution" to education was FAR worse than Jean-Jacques Rousseau's contribution largely because of Voltaire deliberately trying to sabotage education (Rousseau you could argue was merely incompetent). Basically doing what Richard Rorty did with his students and how that led directly to Obama. And he also propagandized people to be steeled against Christianity as well, while obviously promoting Atheism, even managing to turn nearly overnight the definition of an academic into basically being an atheist in all but name thanks to that. He also stifled and crushed the actual rights of Christians to speak, destroyed the Jesuit order, which by consequence also left France with a poor education system before he took it over and arguably turned it for the worse.
Probably the worst thing about it all is that Voltaire claims he was promoting freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and now has a reputation among even us Conservatives of being the embodiment of free speech values, even when he all but completely DESTROYED the right for Christians to engage in Free Speech. In some ways, I actually find free speech too cynical to be worth anything at this point, even with it being protected under the Constitution, especially when he clearly used free speech as a weapon to cow people into destroying Christendom. Heck, Voltaire was indirectly responsible for the proto-Bolsheviks, aka the Jacobins' later murder of the king.
Otness_e has done us all a favor here. When I joined Free Republic years ago it was a platform, forum, where people who had good character engaged in lively discussions to take up questions and riddles that never were solved. Thanks. I probably will use this material in our class in Mexico, we teach English and History. Our ‘spin’, is that Mexico was more influenced really by the French Revolution than the Spanish Crown. Thanks... and a proper day. Determined to keep the focus and not give up on a better politic in America.
Has there ever been a coup or revolution without conspiracy?
America’s in a gray area, but probably no.
By that, I meant 1776.
At least you guys had the Christeros, who weren’t influenced by the French Revolution in any way other than the Vendee.
Thank you for this. Bookmarking for later.
The Storming of the Bastille = The Simultaneous Cessation of Vote Counting in Swing States
Not to mention Encyclopedie = Wikipedia or any other platform owned by the left.
Bavarian Illuminati ping!
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