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‘French political writers of the eighteenth century were influenced by Locke and also by the curious contrasts which they perceived between the government of his country and their own.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Eighteenth-century French political thought drew simultaneously on John Locke's philosophy and on the living spectacle of England's constitutional government set against France's unreformed absolutism.

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  • Locke's Direct Philosophical Legacy
  • The Curious Contrast: England Observed Against France
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