March 10, 2016
All Day
209 W 18th Ave, Room 160
In this lecture, Professor Bell will examine the birth of a new model of heroic, charismatic political authority in Enlightenment literary culture and trace how that model helped shape the politics of the French Revolution, from 1789 to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Professor David A. Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History at Princeton University
