| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Aurelian Craiutu. Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. (Applications of Political Theory.) Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2003. Pp. xvii, 337. Cloth $80.00, paper $26.95.

The Doctrinaires have suffered the fate of most centrists in modern French politics: neglect by historians. A small group of intellectuals in politics, the Doctrinaires (François Guizot, Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, Charles de Rémusat, Prosper de Barante, and Victor de Broglie) were not shy about claiming an intellectual, moral, and political superiority that has made them hard to like. As defenders of the society that emerged from the French Revolution, they were "under siege" both from those who wanted to return to some version of the Old Regime and those who wanted to go beyond the constitutional monarchy established in 1814 to a democratic or socialist republic. Their commitment to moderation opened them to charges of inconsistency or opportunism that, combined with the failure in 1848 of the regime they supported, made them seem irrelevant to the development of modern political thought. Aurelian Craiutu's solidly researched work is a welcome effort to present the Doctrinaires to an English-language audience in a more sympathetic light, rejecting the still common image of hide-bound reactionaries in a century of progress.

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