TY - JOUR AU - Popkin, Jeremy D. AB - Modern Europe 177 account to the general treasury account, historians cepts and how the meaning of those concepts changed possessed no exact analysis of what happened to royal from the Age of Louis XIV to the Restoration. This investments in the Académie Royale des Sciences after study of the French concept of freedom (liberté) from the protectorships of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Fran- the beginning of the eighteenth century to Napoleon ois Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois. Bonaparte's seizure of power is a more detailed appli- It is precisely because Stroup succeeds so well in cation of the methods of Begriffsgeschichte, the specifi- reconstructing the amounts of pensions and other cally West German attempt to combine intellectual and expenditures from the general treasury account that social history. her work raises for the reader several intriguing ques- Compared to the Germans, van den Heuvel finds, tions. Pontchartrain was a cultural administrator who, the mid-eighteenth-century French had abandoned the like a seventeenth-century William Bennett, sought to corporatist identification of liberties as the privileges of improve the conduct of scientific research at the same corporate groups within the framework of Old Regime time that he deliberately cut royal investment in the society, TI - Gerd Van Den Heuvel. Der Freiheitsbegriff der Französischen Revolution: Studien Zur Revolutionsideologie. (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission Bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Number 31.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 1988. Pp. 293. DM 92 JF - The American Historical Review DO - 10.1086/ahr/95.1.177 DA - 1990-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gerd-van-den-heuvel-der-freiheitsbegriff-der-franz-sischen-revolution-uYv0SqwwN0 SP - 177 EP - 178 VL - 95 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -