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	Obituary: Francois Furet
		Francois Furet, one of the world's leading authorities on the French Revolution, died July 12 in Toulouse, France, where he had been treated for a head injury he suffered while playing tennis earlier in the week.
		In March, Furet was elected to the Academie Francaise, France's premier intellectual society.
		Furet, one of France's leading scholars, helped redefine the interpretation of the French Revolution through his many books, including Interpreting the French Revolution (1978), Marx and the French Revolution (1986), The Revolution 1770-1880 (1988) and A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1988), which he co-edited.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /970925/furet.shtml (220 words)

	François Furet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		François Furet (27 March 1927 – 12 July 1997) was an influential French historian who attacked the way the French Revolution is interpreted by Marxist historians.
		Furet served as Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and as a professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
		There is now a François Furet school in the suburbs of Paris as well as a François Furet prize given out every year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Furet (286 words)

	François Furet
		François Furet, a professor at the University of Chicago and one of the world’s leading authorities on the French Revolution, died Saturday in a hospital in Toulouse, France, where he was treated for a head injury he suffered while playing tennis earlier in the week.
		The paper said Furet was able to help the French realize that there were actually two revolutions embedded in the events that began with the uprising against the Old Regime in 1789.
		Furet contended that the French should not immediately connect the ideas of revolution with democracy, but rather should see revolution as an idea linked with the overthrow of aristocracy.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/97/970714.furet.obit.shtml (711 words)

	François Furet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Furet reminds us that that blind spot has spawned an entire historiography by systematically constrasting Nazi barbarism and its bourgeois accomplices (big capital had, after all, supported Hitler) with Communist resistance and tomorrow's brighter future.
		But, Furet's book is, precisely, the work of a social democrat, a typical representative of the West's intelligentsia, which embodies everything Nazism and Communism sought to combat.
		François Furet is professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and at Chicago University and the author of many works on the French Revolution, whose understanding he has reshaped by freeing it of Marxist concepts.
	www.france.diplomatie.fr /label_france/ENGLISH/IDEES/FURET/fur.html (861 words)

	Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture
		Though once a Marxist himself, Furet broke with the Marxist view of the French Revolution—long dominant in French historiography—which saw it as an economically determined bourgeois warm–up for the Russian Revolution of October 1917.
		Furet rejected the notion of historical inevitability and gave human political actions a central explanatory role.
		The "bourgeois city," as Furet terms it, is morally indeterminate because, basing itself on the sovereign individual, it constituted itself as a rebellion against, or at least a downplaying of, any extrahuman or ontological dimension that might provide moral direction to life.
	www.leaderu.com /socialsciences/capitalismsuicide.html (5322 words)

	Furet, "Interpreting the French Revolution" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cochin was the first, Furet claimed, to comprehend the mechanisms of control and the ideological passions of the radical, 1793 'Jacobin' phase of the Revolution....
		Furet's whole career was an attempt to unlock the secrets of oa socialist equation of 1917 with 1793....
		Furet's case is based on the understanding that a political mentality inherited from the ancien régime determined the shape and momentum of the revolution until its exhaustion in 1794....
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/furet.html (5167 words)

	Book Review - The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
		Furet insightfully diagnoses, therefore, the rise of both communism and fascism out of the disaster of World War I. Both forms of collectivism revolted against classical liberalism, the market economy, and democratic government.
		Furet argues that fascism's appeal to a sense of national identity has often been found to be the stronger attraction in our time.
		The first earthquake to shake the foundations of support for the Soviet Union in the West, Furet says, was the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939, which resulted in the joint dismembership of Poland by the two totalitarian powers and enabled Hitler's armies to conquer western Europe.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0899f.asp (999 words)

	© François Furet, the Terror, and 1789 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even François Furet, whose views defy any easy political classification, was speaking in 1965 about the Revolution's having "skidded off course" ("dérapage") and about the second revolution that succeeded the first.
		Today, however, after a good deal of reflection and further work, François Furet is coming to the conclusion that the Revolution of 1789 was neither pure nor moderate and that it already contained in its pervading political culture all the ideas that the Terror only institutionalized.
		Furet is excellent in describing the accelerating judicial murders, the Jacobin dictatorship, the assumptions underlying the republic of virtue and its supposed enemies, the mentalities involved.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /jfec/cal/frenrev/resource/21a(4).htm (2763 words)

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		Furet recognises that there are differences between communism and fascism: one is a 'pathology' of the universal, the other a 'pathology' of the national.
		Furet traces parallels between Stalin and Hitler in their methods of repression, from the show-trials to the murders to the concentration camps, culminating in the 'anti-bourgeois' complicity of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
		And Furet hardly mentions the specific role of communism in the political life of France, from the Front Populaire to the Resistance, from the Reconstruction to the Union of the Left and, today, la Gauche plurielle - episodes which have all been marked by the defence and extension of democracy.
	homepage.eircom.net /~higher/bowd19.htm (1054 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Communism's 'Illusion' Transcended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Francois Furet was one of France's leading thinkers to emerge from the tumult of the 1960s, and the most influential contemporary historian of the French Revolution.
		Rather, Furet explains, "it is a history of the illusion of Communism during the time in which the USSR lent it consistency and vitality." The Communist illusion was based on "the religion of history" — the idea of historical necessity, which supposedly pointed towards utopia based simultaneously on radical human freedom and radical human unity.
		Furet focuses on the illusion of communism — the intellectual appeal of Marxism-Leninism — which had relatively little direct political cachet in the United States beyond certain academics.
	www.claremont.org /writings/991112garrity.html (2308 words)

	Furet, Francois: The Passing of an Illusion
		Furet, Francois The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century.
		François Furet was acknowledged as the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the French Revolution.
		François Furet (1927-1997), educator and author, was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and was elected, in 1997, to become one of the "Forty Immortals" of the Académie Française, the highest intellectual honor in France.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13661.ctl (420 words)

	Dancing on the Grave of Revolution
		Furet's Révolution is really an essay, a commentary on French history from 1770 to 1880 that requires from the reader a fairly good knowledge of events.
		Furet's main thesis is that the age of revolution is over.
		Furet, himself a zealous practitioner of Stalinist history in his youth, subsequently attacked his former fellows for their political contortions.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19890206/singer (2779 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Communism's 'Illusion' Transcended (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Furet's final consideration of communism, written before his death in 1997, is therefore worth serious attention.
		Furet's diagnosis of the nature and course of the Communism illusion is detailed and persuasive.
		Furet's account of the origin, course, and conclusion of the Communist illusion, while extensive and impressive, must be supplemented and qualified.
	www.claremont.org /writings/991112garrity.html?FORMAT=print (2216 words)

	Francois Furet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After beginning his studies at the University of Letters and Law in his native Paris, Furet was forced to leave school in 1950 due to a case of tuberculosis.
		Furet served as Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and as a professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
		Furet's 1978 work "Interpreting the French Revolution" set about to imagine the Revolution as less the result of social and class conflict than as a conflict over the meaning and application of egalitarian, or tolerant, and democratic ideas.
	francois-furet.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Francois_Furet (991 words)

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