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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, published November 1790
Reflections on the Revolution in France[a] is a political pamphlet written by the British statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790.
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It is fundamentally a contrast of the French Revolution to that time with the unwritten British Constitution and, to a significant degree, an argument with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution,[1]Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature describes Reflections as becoming the "most eloquent statement of British conservatism favoring monarchy, aristocracy, property, hereditary succession, and the wisdom of the ages."[2] Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's