Madame de Staël and the Constitution of the Year III: The birth of the liberal republicanism

Authors

  • María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i16.436

Keywords:

Madame de Staël, liberal repulicanism, France, Constitution of Year III

Abstract

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, during the stormy days between Termidor and Brumaire, Mme. de Staël played a fundamental role in the formation of liberal republicanism. Her book, Des circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la Révolution et des principes qui doivent fonder la république en France, presented a template for a moderate and pluralistic republic, as much as it showed how to reform the Constitution de l'An III in order to fix those mistakes which forced the Directoire to sustain the republic by means of coup d'états and political violence.

Fecha de envío / Submission Date: 10/03/2015
Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance Date: 14/04/2015

Author Biography

María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Catedrática de Historia del Pensamiento
Político en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Especialista en el liberalismo europeo de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, ha dedicado sus tareas de investigación a las alternativas políticas que surgen tras la Revolución francesa, a la relación entre liberalismo y romanticismo, y a los fundamentos teóricos del imperialismo europeo en sus primeras formulaciones. Entre sus publicaciones destacan: Benjamin Constant y la construcción del liberalismo posrevolucionario (1992) “Repúblicas monárquicas y monarquías republicanas. La reflexión de Sieyès, Necker y Constant sobre las formas de gobierno” (2003); “La teoría política de los Ideólogos” (2004); “Los intereses de Francia: Tocqueville y la cuestión colonial” (2009). En la
actualidad dirige el Grupo de Investigación Política y sociedad en la Europa del siglo XIX, y es Coordinadora del Máster Liderazgo democrático y comunicación política, que imparte la Universidad Complutense.

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Published

2015-09-08

Issue

No. 16 (2015): Historia Constitucional N. 16 (2015)

Section

France

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