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Which sermon prompted Edmund Burke to write Reflections on the Revolution in France?
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Edmund Burke was prompted to write his famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), by a sermon titled Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789).12
This sermon was delivered by the Protestant dissenter and moral philosopher Richard Price, who used the occasion to express his enthusiastic support for the French Revolution. Burke, who was deeply alarmed by both the revolution and the favorable reaction it received in England, wrote his Reflections as a direct rebuttal to Price’s arguments.12