# Reflections on the Revolution in France

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- Book: [Reflections on the Revolution in France](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france) ([Reflections on the Revolution in France.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france.md))
- Authors: [Edmund Burke](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-burke)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-204-6
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2003-12-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.