Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism - Part 2: The Antimonarchical Conspiracy

This second volume in the series demonstrates how the conspiracy of 'the Sect', led by sophisters Voltaire, d'Alembert, and Diderot, passed from the hatred of Christianity to the hatred of kings. Barruel describes their political ideology, founded on the teachings of Montesquieu and Rousseau; the coalescing of the plot against the Thrones with the plot against the Altar; the inundation of anti-monarchical books; the attacks against the aristocracy in France; and their high-level allies, abe...