Back to the Future
Back to the Future
The Bourgeois Liberal Republic
This chapter discusses how Staël's analysis of the role of factions in the Revolution is better understood in the light of the final section of the Considerations, dedicated to England. Like her favorite Anglophile writers, Staël praised England's commercial achievements; its constitution; and its tradition of individual liberty, freedom of the press, and religious toleration. But what interested her above all was the functioning of English parliamentarianism and the nation's party system. All along she manifested great admiration for the Whig Party and its leaders: an admiration that was not affected by the pro-Bonapartist stand of Charles Fox's entourage, nor by the crippling divisions that wrecked the party during the French wars.
Keywords: Germaine de Staël, Revolution, Considerations, individual liberties, freedom of the press, English parliamentarianism, Whig Party, Charles Fox, French wars
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