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the revolution and napoleon just finished off the centralizing tendencies of the ancien regime

Yeah, because the French Republic hasn't been centralist at all. Oh, no.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 4th, 2012 at 04:09:28 PM EST
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I thinkn IM meant finished as in compleated, not as in ended.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Jul 4th, 2012 at 04:17:19 PM EST
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finished off on the sense of completing it. That is the Toqueville thesis in the

L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution

"It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution. In this book, de Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to disassociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government."

As I said a plausible thesis.

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by IM on Wed Jul 4th, 2012 at 04:17:40 PM EST
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Nah, it's more fun this way.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 4th, 2012 at 04:47:54 PM EST
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