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International audience ; This study is a legal analysis, objective and critical, of the first two republican Constitutions that followed the French Revolution and the end of the French monarchy. Under more than two centuries of French constitutional history, are examined the consistencies and inconsistencies that have marked these legal texts and their circumstances. Each Constitution appears in some aspects modern, but also in other aspects archaic. Nevertheless, the 1790s are the most fundamental point in modern history of the French public law. ; La présente étude est une analyse juridique, apolitique, objective et critique des deux premières Constitutions républicaines à avoir succédé à la Révolution française et à l'abolition, en 1792, de la monarchie. À l'aune des enseignements permis par plus de deux siècles d'histoire constitutionnelle, sont soulignés les moments de lucidité et d'égarement institutionnels qui ont marqué ces textes ainsi que leurs contextes, leurs esprits et leurs réalités. Chacun apparaît, sous certains aspects, moderne, mais aussi, sous de nombreux autres, archaïque, que ce soit dans sa lettre ou dans sa pratique. Cela ne retire évidemment rien au fait que la décennie 1790 est le moment le plus fondateur (en ce qu'il est premier) de l'histoire moderne du droit public, donc le plus infiniment digne d'intérêt.

International audience ; This study is a legal analysis, objective and critical, of the first two republican Constitutions that followed the French Revolution and the end of the French monarchy. Under more than two centuries of French constitutional history, are examined the consistencies and inconsistencies that have marked these legal texts and their circumstances. Each Constitution appears in some aspects modern, but also in other aspects archaic. Nevertheless, the 1790s are the most fundamental point in modern history of the French public law. ; La présente étude est une analyse juridique, apolitique, objective et critique des deux premières Constitutions républicaines à avoir succédé à la Révolution française et à l'abolition, en 1792, de la monarchie. À l'aune des enseignements permis par plus de deux siècles d'histoire constitutionnelle, sont soulignés les moments de lucidité et d'égarement institutionnels qui ont marqué ces textes ainsi que leurs contextes, leurs esprits et leurs réalités. Chacun apparaît, sous certains aspects, moderne, mais aussi, sous de nombreux autres, archaïque, que ce soit dans sa lettre ou dans sa pratique. Cela ne retire évidemment rien au fait que la décennie 1790 est le moment le plus fondateur (en ce qu'il est premier) de l'histoire moderne du droit public, donc le plus infiniment digne d'intérêt.

Prohibiting all correspondence between French towns in possession of the enemy and those not so possessed. Caption title. "Pour ampliation conforme au registre. Le secrétaire du Conseil. Signé, Grouvelle"--Page 3. Imprint from colophon. Head-piece. ; Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Foreign Language B18F12 ; Florida Atlantic Digital Library Collections

. Hearne was born in 1745 in London. He was an indifferent schoolboy and at the age of eleven was in the Royal Navy under the command of Admiral Samuel Hood. He saw action during the Seven Years War but left the Navy and, in 1766, became an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, which sent him to Fort Prince of Wales at the mouth of the Churchill River. . During its first century the Company had made no determined attempt to penetrate the interior and only the most half-hearted excursions were sent to seek Anian. By the 1730s, however, significant opposition to Company sovereignty and its implementation of its charter obligations had arisen in both England and America. Arthur Dobbs, Surveyor-General of Ireland, initiated a twenty-year struggle to force the Company to meet its charter terms. His challenges generated enough interest to induce the House of Parliament to offer a prize of 20,000 [Pounds Sterling] for the discovery of a strait. He applied for and was granted permission to lead an expedition into the North, accompanied by two white men and certain Indians, to "promote . our trade, as well as for the discovery of a North West Passage, Copper Mines, etc. ." The attempt was a humiliating failure. Two hundred miles northwest of the fort the Indians robbed the white men and left them to reach safety as best they could. Hearne began again in February 1770, with only native companions. He got three hundred miles inland and four hundred miles north of the Churchill before he was robbed. He turned toward home. Nevertheless, it was the farthest north any European had yet explored inland North America. On the return to the Churchill, Hearne met Matonabbee, an important Chipewyan chief, who offered to guide a third attempt toward the Arctic. Norton agreed and between December 1770 and June 1772 Hearne - again the only white man - headed an expedition across the Barren Grounds. . Starvation and death in arctic storms were constant attendants, but in the end he was at the mouth of the Coppermine River on Coronation Gulf. . But he had paid a price. He had watched the butchery of Eskimos at Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River and seen starvation decimate his companions. And he was to see his work sneered at by the scientific and military worlds. Among other criticisms, they said there could be no plant life where he reported because there was none on Greenland in that latitude; the sun could never by visible for twenty-four hours as he said; and the Indians could not possibly roam over such vast areas as he claimed. . Samuel Hearne was the first European to cross the Barren Grounds to the Arctic and thus prove there is no waterway through our continent. He discovered and charted many major lakes, including Great Slave Lake where Matonabbee Point and Hearne Channel credit his work. His record of natural history of the Barren Grounds and the peoples who roamed over them stands unchallenged, and the establishment of Cumberland House saved the great Company from failure and set it on its way to its present eminence as the longest lived commercial venture of all time.

First published in 1938, this volume represents a selection of unpublished and published documents dealing with foreign affairs, from the rise of the Younger Pitt to the death of Salisbury. It contains both official papers and private letters; speeches and other public statements of policy. The Editors have had access to a large number of unpublished materials, public and private, so that many of the documents that they have chosen are new and reveal a striking continuity of ideas in British diplomacy, despite opposed parties and even opposing policies.

The origins of the French Revolutionary Wars -- The armies of the Ancien Régime -- From the Bastile to Valmy -- Saving the Revolution -- Exporting the Revolution -- Sympathy, admiration and collaboration -- Resistance and revolt (1): Frances -- Resistance and revolt (2): The French Imperium -- The reaction of the Ancien Régime -- The wider world -- The road to 18 Brumaire -- The end of the French Revolutionary Wars

The Four-Year Sejm is one of the events of critical importance both in the history of parliamentarism and the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This article attempts to present the events of 1788–92 from two perspectives: on the one hand, by placing them in the tradition of the functioning of the Sejm as the highest organ of power in the Commonwealth; on the other, by considering them as a kind of revolution, interwoven with the 'revolutionary cycle', which began with the rebellion of the American colonies and culminated with the groundbreaking eruption in France. Following and describing the course of the Sejm's debates, the author divides them into stages that she describes as 'destruction – discussion – creation', seeing in them certain features typical of all events of this period that bear the hallmarks of revolution. She analyses both the play of political forces within the Sejm and the more fundamental changes in the political attitudes and political awareness of the nobility, as well as the revival of the townspeople. She also takes into account the changing international position of the Commonwealth. In this broad context, she presents the subsequent events and decisions of the Sejm up to the most important – the adoption of the Government Act on 3 May 1791.

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. Distinguishing himself from other thinkers of this period, in addition to delving into the new Kantian philosophy, Schelling engaged in an intense study of Plato's dialogues and was immersed in a Neoplatonic intellectual culture. Throughout the first decade of his adult life, from 1792-1802, Schelling was a mystical Platonist. Attention to these aspects of Schelling's early philosophical development illuminates his fundamental commitments.