Front Page Titles (by Subject) 19th Century French Liberalism
School of Thought: 19th Century French Liberalism Between the
French Revolution and the First World War France produced an
impressive group of classical liberal and conservative writers.
They focused on the problems of creating a constitutional
limited government, the issue of free trade, French imperialism
and colonialism, the history of the French Revolution and
Napoleon, freedom of speech, the rise of socialism and the
welfare state. They differed from their English colleagues in a
number of ways, particularly in the French preference to ground
the defence of liberty on natural rights instead of
utilitarianism, which was increasingly favored by the English.
By the time the First World War broke out the French liberal
movement had been fatally weakened and it virtually disappeared.
|Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) ||Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
||Augustin Thierry (1795-1856) For more information see: - John
Lukacs, “Alexis de Tocqueville: A Histori