Tag Archives: French revolution

Self-fashioning and rhetoric in the french revolution: Anacharsis Cloots, orator of the human race

Posted on 2 July 2018 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of … Continue reading →

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Avenel’s biography of Anacharsis Cloots

Posted on 12 November 2008 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Avenel, Georges (1865), Anacharsis Cloots: L’orateur du genre humain, Paris : Librairie internationale. This is one of the very first biography existing on this not so well-known history character of the French Revolution, Anacharsis Cloots. The merit of this book is … Continue reading →

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Dédéyan: le cosmopolitisme européen sous la révolution et l’empire

Posted on 10 November 2008 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Dédéyan, Charles (1976) Le cosmopolitisme européen sous la Révolution et l’Empire. 2 vols. Paris: Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur. One of the rare books of intellectual history about cosmopolitanism in Europe. Written in French, it is focusing on the periods immediately … Continue reading →

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