Titlebook: Victorian Political Thought on France and the French; Georgios Varouxakis Book 2002 Georgios Varouxakis 2002 Britain.France.nation.percept

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,Epilogue: ,? Comparing with Other ‘Glasses’,their major preoccupations, emphases and conclusions regarding France with those of late-twentieth-century scholars and thinkers. Such an exercise is bound to be selective and simply suggestive, but it may still be worth attempting.

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ountry on the other side of the Channel, its politics, civilization, and the French ‘national character‘ contributed to nineteenth-century Britain‘s self-definition. While the utterances on France of several other figures are also examined, the main focus is on Walter Bagehot, John Stuart Mill, Matt

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,Introduction: Victorian ‘Public Moralists’, Ethnocentrism and the View of France,ociety during what Elie Halévy has referred to as ‘that great epoch during which the British people cherished the splendid illusion that they had discovered in a moderate liberty, and not for themselves alone but for every nation that would have the wisdom to follow their example, the secret of mora

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,Was France ‘the Most Civilised of Nations’?,l country as the belief that France was ‘the most civilised of nations’. Statements such as Tocqueville’s reference to England, in 1835, as the world’s most civilized country (‘.’) were not typical.. In any case, Tocqueville was referring to material comfort during a journey and thus was using the n

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and Frenchness: Nationalism, International Relations and French National Character,iarity. Nor was it a recent phenomenon. At least as early as the twelfth century German authors were complaining about .. And, in the thirteenth century, Spanish texts blamed the English of treachery, adding that they ‘have false hearts’. As Eugen Weber has remarked, this attribution of treachery to

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,Epilogue: ,? Comparing with Other ‘Glasses’,l put it, ‘frequently using the differently coloured glasses of other people’. Although doing so on a larger scale would require more than another book, it may be a fitting way of concluding this one to try to somehow put in a comparative light the ‘glasses’ of the Victorians by juxtaposing some of

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