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In this issue (49, April 2025) are published the papers presented at the conference organized by Manuela Albertone and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke in May 2023 in Turin, among which those of Agnès Delahaye, "La révolution américaine sous le prisme du peuplement", Ghislain Potriquet, "The Franco-American Alliance: a Century After", and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Irma Toti, "L’Amérique au concours. Prix académiques sur la "découverte" du Nouveau Monde et la Révolution américaine en France et en Toscane (1774-1792)". 

Sommario / Contents:

Manuela Albertone, Francesco Di Donato, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Introduzione / Introduction

FONDAMENTI

Matteo Battistini, A Revolution in the State of Civilization: democrazia e società commerciale nel mondo atlantico di Thomas Paine / A Revolution in the State of Civilization: Democracy and Commercial Society in the Atlantic World of Thomas Paine

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Irma Toti, L’Amérique au concours. Prix académiques sur la «découverte» du Nouveau Monde et la Révolution américaine en France et en Toscane (1774-1792) / Contests About America. Academic Prizes on the «Discovery» of the New World and the American Revolution in France and Tuscany (1774-1792)

Cecilia Carnino, Benjamin Franklin’s ‘The Way to Wealth’ in Italy, between the Ancien Régime and Revolution (1775-1801) / ‘The Way to Wealth’ di Benjamin Franklin in Italia tra Ancien Régime e Rivoluzione (1775-1801)
    
Antonino De Francesco, La Guerra d’indipendenza americana nel dibattito politico francese ai tempi della Legislativa (1791-1792) / The American War of Independence in the French Political Debate at the time of the Legislative (1791-1792)

Pierangelo Castagneto, Le lampeggianti campane della libertà. L’americanismo giacobino di Luigi Angeloni / The Flashing Chimes of Freedom. The American Jacobinism of Luigi Angeloni
    
Edoardo Tortarolo, Friedrich von Gentz et sa comparaison entre la révolution américaine et la révolution française en 1800. Notes de lecture / Friedrich von Gentz. A comparison between the American Revolution and the French Revolution in 1800
    
Agnès Delahaye, La Révolution américaine sous le prisme du peuplement / Thinking the American Revolution through settlement
    
Ghislain Potriquet, The Franco-American Alliance: a Century After / L’alliance franco-américaine, cent ans plus tard
    
RICERCHE

Stefania Ecchia, La Costituzione polacco-lituana del 1791: innovazioni e limiti di un percorso / The Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of 1791: Innovations and Limitations of a Political Path
    
Marco Fioravanti, Incunaboli d’Europa. Parte I: Lo Statuto Internazionale di Tangeri (1923-1956) / Incunabola of Europe. Part I: The International Statute of Tangier (1923-1956)

LIBRIDO
Primo piano / In the foreground
Riccardo Cavallo legge / reads Hermann Heller, Dottrina dello Stato, traduzione e cura di Ulderico Pomarici
Andrea Raffaele Amato legge / reads Italo Birocchi (a cura di), Civiltà del diritto. Emilio Lussu, Giacomo Matteotti, Silvio Trentin

Ventitré proposte di lettura / Twenty-three reading proposals

Autori / Authors

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Contents

Introduction
Understanding the American Revolution in Twenty-First-Century France
Kevin Butterfield and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Articles
Atlantic Patriotism: The Seven Years’ War and the Transformation of American, British, and French Political Culture
Edmond Dziembowski

French Volunteers in Benjamin Franklin’s Correspondence: The American Revolution as Mirror of a Military Crisis
Leïla Tnaïnchi

“I Told Him That the French Army Being Auxiliary in This Continent, It Was Up to the American General to Give His Orders”: The Paradoxes of French Military Operations in America, 1778–1783
Olivier Chaline

Montesquieu and The Federalist: A Contested Legacy at the American Founding
Hugo Toudic and Céline Spector

Gouverneur Morris, France, and Republicanism in the Atlantic Space
Emilie Mitran

The Impact of the American Revolution on French Anticolonial and Antislavery Views in the 1780s
Carine Lounissi

Consider the Source
Finding the American Revolution in France: François-Jean de Chastellux’s Private Papers and Beyond
Iris de Rode

Documenting a Proposed 1781 French-American Attack on New York: The Chastellux Archive and the Epic Finale That Never Was
Joseph F. Stoltz III

Epilogue
Connecting the Histories of France and the United States, circa 1750–1800
François Furstenberg

Page 3 à 11

• Introduction
• Carine Lounissi, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Page 12 à 23

• The Case of Scotland in the Constitutional Debate on the American Colonies: Benjamin Franklin’s and Adam Smith’s Visions of Empire (1754-1776)

Florence Petroff

Page 24 à 43

• Odes to the Revolution: Alfieri’s L’America libera

Stefania Buccini

Page 44 à 59

• Anticolonialism in the Era of the American Revolution. An Essay Contest at the Académie de Lyon in the 1780s

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Page 60 à 77

• The First French “Americanists” of the 1770s and 1780s, the American Revolution and Atlantic History: Beyond Mirages in the West

Carine Lounissi

Page 78 à 96

• Four Founding Fathers on the Road: New Government Design in the United States and the Netherlands, 1776-1815

Lauren Lauret, Dirk Alkemade

Page 97 à 110

• Facing Two Revolutions: Contemporaneous German Public Opinions of the American and French Revolutions

Susanne Lachenicht