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Travelling in a vast area (Ottoman Empire and Egypt and Syria) in the year 1784 and visiting the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra, Volney, unknowingly, summons the Ghost of the ruins with his many questions and melancholic state:
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May 3, 2006 · THE RUINS, or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires—1791. ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF CORSICA—1793. THE LAW OF NATURE, or Physical Principles of Morality—1793.
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (3 February 1757 – 25 April 1820) was a French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician who was made Commander of the Legion of honour in 1804, Count of the empire in 1808, and a Peer of France by Louis XVIII.
Apr 2, 1991 · But in a world beset by massive government deficits and resurgent religious conflict, Volney's Ruins of Empires provides a roadmap for the future. In a word, Volney's Ruins isn't about Yesterday. It's about Today and Tomorrow.
- Count Constantine Francis Volney
The Ruins of Empire. By C. F. Volney. THE RUINS, OR, MEDITATION ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF EMPIRES: AND THE LAW OF NATURE, BY C. F. VOLNEY, COMTE ET PAIR DE FRANCE, COMMANDER DE LA LÉGION D'HONNEUR, MEMBRE DE L' ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, ET DE PLUSIEURS AUTRES SOCIÉTÉS SAVANTES.
The Ruins: or a Survery of the Revolutions of Empires. Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Marquis de Volney (author) Volney’s best known work deals with the origins of human society, of government and laws, the evolution of society, and the reasons for the decline and fall of empires. Read Now.
Les Ruines, ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires by Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney (1757-1820) is one of the geniunely radical documents produced in the early years of the French Revolution, a work that severely critiques all the reigning ideologies of the world -- whether political or theological -- and proposes ...