Reflections on the Revolution in France

The eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish MP and philosopher offers his opinion on the early days of the French Revolution and his expectations of its outcome.

The French Revolution began in 1789. In the following year, Edmund Burke, a member of Great Britain's House of Commons, wrote one of the most famous arguments against the rebellion. The work started off as a letter to a friend of Burke's family who had asked for his opinion on whether France's new ruling class would succeed in establishing ...