{Revolutionary Circles}[6th December 1989]

[Redbook6:357][19891206:1752]{Revolutionary Circles}[6th December 1989]

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‘After Bonaparte’s coup d’etat* tension eased as the high ideals dropped to a more workaday level, just as the puritanism** was replaced by moral licence.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 18: 786, [in] ‘Europe’.

I started to note this down because it did not fit the Circle pattern. But my experience of C involves a tendency towards ascetic puritanism: and although M~ is associated with moral rigour, at least in appearance, the O[uter] C[ircle] passage through M~ is a descent into separation.

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

		→
		The Terror
		1792
French Revolution	1789	|	1799	Napoleon i/c France
1784			1800
			1802	Napoleon 1st Consul
			18	04 Napoleon Emperor
	–	+	–	1808 ↓
			1815	Waterloo
			1816
		|

*[on 9th November 1799]

**ie associated with the French Revolution.

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