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Introduction.- Part 1: Germaine de Staël's Political Liberalism.- Invention of the Political Center as an Ideal: Staël and the Constitutional Monarchy (1789-1795).- Sentiment in Staëlian Political Liberalism: Letters on the Works and Character of J.-J. Rousseau.- Staël’s Liberal Republicanism in Reaction to the Discourse on Social Dissolution (1795-1799).- The Role of Civility in Staëlian Political Liberalism.- A Liberal Interpretation of the French Revolution: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution.- Part 2: Influence on Nineteenth-Century French Politics.- Reception of Considerations: The Hereditary Second Chamber.- Guizot’s and Rémusat’s Reactions to Considerations in 1818.- Barante’s Moment: The Advent of Communal Liberalism in 1829.- Tocqueville and Communal Liberalism (1830-1851).- Democratizing Communal Liberalism under the Second Empire.- Part 3: Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution.- Reception of Considerations: Left-Wing Historians’ Refutation in the 1820s.- The Reception of Considerations: A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution (1818-1848).- A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution after 1848.- Britain in the Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution: Tocqueville and Quinet in Regard to Considerations.- Conclusion.