Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour’s comment, ‘Après moi, le déluge’ (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness–not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt. In Before the Deluge, Michael Sonenscher examines these fears and the...
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Michael Sonenscher is a fellow and Director of Studies in History at King’s College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of
The Hatters of Eighteenth-Century ...
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