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English
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Champion of Freedom in the Modern World : France
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Window of Faith : Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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369-383
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"A consideration of pertinent historical facts reveals that France's contributions to modern freedom, while quite different from those of England and the United States, were also vital. The hand of the Lord may be discerned (1) in France's contributions through the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the intellectual underpinnings of individual and political freedoms, (2) in the great French Revolution, which demonstrated to Europe and the world that freedoms may be achieved rapidly by a people determined to make a radical change in their government and social structure, and (3) in France's contributions at the outset of the nineteenth century to a number of modern ideologies featuring freedom and human rights." [From author's introduction]