"Brumaire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat, ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx
... had to go backwards through the circles between Thermidor and Brumaire, and can hardly be said to have "seen the stars" even then. Vigny has, as we shall see, touched on the less enormous and flagrant—but as individual things scarcely less atrocious—crimes of the Directory in the first story of his ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
