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In striking contrast to its exclusion from the narrative in Story of my life, the French Revolution is the subject of numerous texts written by Giacomo Casanova between 1789 and his death in 1798. These essays give shape to a conservative political thought deeply hostile to the Revolution and the principles upon which it rose. Written by Casanova in 1794, the “Reasoning of a Spectator on the Upheaval of the French Monarchy by the Revolution of 1789” and the “Reflections on the Revolution of France” present a meditation on the causality at work in the revolutionary rupture. Casanova's analysis reviews the primary and secondary causes of this great event, insisting on the contingency that manifests itself in human affairs. But as Casanova strives to create a coherent theory of the causes that led to the Revolution, he ends up with aporetic consequences which come to underline the unknowable rationality involved in historical phenomena as well as in those of his own life.
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