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564:, Machiavelli claims that he "... wouldn't even need twenty years to transform utterly the most indomitable European character and render it as a docile under tyranny as the debased people of Asia." Montesquieu insists that the liberal spirit of the peoples is invincible. In 25 dialogues, step by step, Machiavelli, who by Joly's plot covertly represents Napoleon III, explains how he would replace freedom with despotism in any given European country: "...Absolute power will no longer be an accident of fortune but will become a need" of the modern society. At the end, Machiavelli prevails. In the curtain-line Montesquieu exclaims "Eternal God, what have you permitted!..." 412: 1470: 33: 1450: 577:
in 1864 and smuggled into France for distribution, but the print-run was seized by the police immediately upon crossing the border. The police swiftly tracked down its author, and Joly was arrested. The book was banned. On 25 April 1865, he was sentenced to 18 months at the
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itself, nor the text copied from it were antisemitic. They merely formed the scaffolding upon which the calumny against the Jewish people was built. An abundance of evidence from the
510:, a satirical attack on Bonaparte's authoritarianism, and a defense of republicanism. The piece uses the literary device of a dialogue of the dead, invented by ancient Roman writer 476:, where he worked as a clerk at various governmental institutions for about 10 years. He successfully completed his legal studies and was finally admitted to the Paris bar in 1859. 1435:
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, and . The Truth About “The Protocols” A Literary Forgery From The Times of August 16, 17 and 18, 1921. Documents. London: , 1921.
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and its author became famous later for an unintended and bizarre reason. Early in the 20th century, extensive passages from Joly's book were used to fraudulently concoct
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apartment in Paris. The declared cause of his death was gunshot suicide. The circumstances meant that the exact date of his death could not be established.
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meet in Hell in the year 1864 and dispute on politics. In this way, Joly tried to conceal a direct, and then illegal, criticism of Louis-Napoleon's rule.
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Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu|Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle
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was issued in 1868 under Joly's name. This time, it reached the readers. But its author remained in obscurity. He established a new journal,
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Sikes, W. E. “A Conversation in the Underworld Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli.” Social Science 28, no. 3 (1953): 152–59.
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Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique au XIXe siècle, par un contemporain [Maurice Joly]
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The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, Studies in Antisemitism Series
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Speier, Hans. “The Truth in Hell: Maurice Joly on Modern Despotism.” Polity 10, no. 1 (1977): 18–32.
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Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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He started writing in 1862, supplying literary portraits of his fellow lawyers to a small magazine,
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L'Apocalypse de notre temps. Les dessous de la propagande allemande d'après des documents inédits
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Le Plébiscite, épilogue du dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, précédé de César
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Supplément à la géographie politique du Jura, dédié à la Société d'émulation de ce département
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Most of the known information about Monsieur Joly is based upon his autobiographical sketch,
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Les Mystères du peuple ou Histoire d'une famille de prolétaires à travers les âges
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Maurice Joly. "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Epilogue".
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A Rumor about the Jews: Conspiracy, Anti-Semitism, and the Protocols of Zion
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Joly relates, in his 1870 autobiography, that one evening thinking of
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1870: Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Épilogue.
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Le Gaulois: littéraire et politique, 664, 30 April 1870, pp.2–3
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Though it gained Joly the reputation of a scandalous and bully
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prison in November 1870, where he was jailed for an assault at
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
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Maurice Joly (author); John S. Waggoner (translator) (2002).
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Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, Épilogue
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The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
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The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
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Le Barreau de Paris, études politiques et littéraires
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Le Barreau de Paris, études politiques et littéraires
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The book was published anonymously (with the by-line
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Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même
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Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même
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Maurice Joly, Son Passé, Son Programme, par Lui-même
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Dentu 617:In 1871, he was a low-rank member of the 506:In 1864, Joly wrote his best-known book, 444:Maurice Joly, un suicidé de la démocratie 1111:. Paris: Livre-Club Diderot. p. 14. 1096:. Paris: Ernest Flammarion. p. 321. 1073: 946:Bronner, Stephen Eric (30 August 2018). 472:, but stopped in 1849 in order to go to 410: 1401:. New York: Harper & Row. pp.  1107:Charles Feld; François Hincker (1971). 986: 945: 1482: 1307: 828: 16:French satirist and lawyer (1829–1878) 844:. Paris: Lacroix, Verbɶckhoven et Co. 797:; La Cloche 2 May 1870 – 10 May 1870. 600:1870 French constitutional referendum 1389: 788:. Paris, Lacroix, Verbɶckhoven et Co 675:and other research established that 621:and in his last years he joined the 582:in Paris. The second edition of the 1173:Philip Graves (16–18 August 1921). 1061:Le Gaulois: Littéraire et politique 979:Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds 657:The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 543:Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds 460:Joly was born in the small town of 13: 1540:People of the Second French Empire 1383: 1192:Kevin Schlottmann (17 July 2013). 1076:La Cloche 2 May 1870 – 10 May 1870 645: 14: 1556: 1443: 1175:"The truth about "The Protocols"" 495:. Then Joly concocted a lampoon, 457:– by the mysterious F. Leclercq. 1515:French people of Italian descent 1448: 1340:Mark Medley (18 November 2011). 1284:Six Walks in the Fictional Woods 1226:. University of Nebraska Press. 1094:L'Invasion, Le Siege, La Commune 1044:. Bruxelles: Tous les libraires. 776:Recherches sur l'art de parvenir 685:Six Walks in the Fictional Woods 602:, Joly wrote an epilogue to his 1520:Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1361: 1333: 1301: 1271: 1240: 1212: 1185: 1166: 1137: 1115: 1100: 1082: 1067: 1048: 1031: 770:, Paris, Martin-Beaupré frères. 761:. Bruxelles, A. Mertens et fils 730: 514:and introduced into the French 1471:Works by or about Maurice Joly 1063:(in French) (664). Paris: 2–3. 1055:Maurice Joly (30 April 1870). 966: 939: 922: 905: 888: 863: 848: 717:In 2015 one of the streets in 1: 1545:Suicides by firearm in France 821: 415: 406: 42: 952:. 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