Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (LF ed.)

Bonald, a Catholic ultraloyalist in the mold of de Maistre, systematically critiqued de Stael’s work, specifically her contention that the Revolution was inevitable and with her assessment of the defects of the pre-Revolutionary French constitution.

de Stael’s father, Necker wrote On Executive Power in 1792. It provides a defense of the representative government and an examination of the French political system.

Tocqueville’s look back at the Revolution shares de Stael’s sense that the Revolution was ultimately inevitable, and that the best case scenario would have been moderate reform.

Constant’s famous essay strikes a similar posture to de Stael in its defense of moderate reforms in favor of a distinctly modern liberty.

Burke’s writings on the French Revolution are some of the most famous and influential in the history of ideas. In many of these writings, Burke took a harder line on Revolutionary ideas than de Stael, finding them to be rotten from the start, rather than corrupted in the course of events.