"The Early and Revolutionary Careers of Mirabeau" by Andre Nilles
 

Date of Award

10-1959

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Leo Wearing

Abstract

The subject of this paper is Gabriel Honore Riqueti, better knovn as the Count de Mirabeau. He is a man about whom it definitely could not be said that he was in harmony with his times. Of the forty-two years which comprised his life span, almost forty of them were spent either in rejecting or being rejected by the society in which he lives. This process of reject ion was very important since it played a vital part in preparing him for the work which he was to do during the last few years of his life. One of his biographers, Jorissen, said of him: "There is a perfect similarity between the scene of the Revolution, in which Mirabeau shone, and the process of his development.... The Revolution was only possible by a perfect severance of all ties uniting every existing order in state, society, or family. None of its adherents severed those ties m:>re completely than Mirabeau himself."

Comments

An Essay Submitted to the History Department, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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