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A Scholarly Temple from National to Napoleonic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jay W. Stein
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The urge to organize and coordinate intellectual and educational activities on a grand scale has seldom been more dynamic than under the changing governments in France from the National Revolution in 1789 to the mounting powers of a Napoleonic Empire a few years later. The dynamism came largely from a group of intellectuals who styled themselves Ideologues. They held uppermost the causes of education, scholarship, and philosophy; and they hailed the possible support of successive governments in the decades immediately before and after 1800. As one political administration grew disappointing, they wished for its downfall and lauded the next. With each new government they anticipated a further break with the past and a revived hope for wider acceptance of their views. In developing these they valued highly the influence of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Helvétius, and the Encyclopedists of the French Enlightenment.

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Research Article
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 7 - 15
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Copyright © 1961, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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