Un erudito militante: Pierre Claude François Daunou di fronte alla Rivoluzione

The essay focuses on the political and intellectual biography of P. -C. -F. Daunou, French scholar and politician. Like the other members of the idéologues’ circle, his public engagement was never detached from a precise philosophical and epistemological approach. Daunou’s political action, carried out between the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration, will demonstrate the centrality of the link between scholarship and politics, two complementary aspects of his public commitment.