UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1991 · Q5(b) · 20 marks
‘French political writers of the eighteenth century were influenced by Locke and also by the curious contrast. which they perceived between the government of his country and their own.’
- Chapter
- Origins of Modern Politics
- Topic
- French Revolution: Causes and the Philosophers
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