Brumaire
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Brumaire
Example Sentences
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His contextualised critique extends to Marx's early attempts at communist ideology in The Paris Manuscripts, as well as the historical materialism of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
What Marx meant in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is that history does not repeat itself at all.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2011
As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible."
From Time Magazine Archive
A phrase later made famous by Marx in the Eighteenth Brumaire in the variant form Hie Rhodus, hie salta.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From 1851 to 1869 they relapse into the same state as after the 18th Brumaire.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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