The origins of liberal historiography The Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française

What conception of history does de Staël put forward in the Considérations? A political history, a conceptual or events-based one, or a history focused on individual lives? This question is complicated by the work’s heterogeneity, as it combines several ambitions and resonates with a personal element that does not separate the analysis of events from fundamental values. The Considérations are therefore even more important as a model for liberal historiography than they are as a history of the Revolution.