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          During the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste “Anacharsis” Cloots (–) developed a theory of the world state as the means to guarantee perpetual peace.!

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          JEAN BAPTISTE DU VAL DE GRACE CLOOTS, BARON VON (1755-1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots, a noteworthy figure in the French Revolution, was born near Cleves, at the castle of Gnadenthal.

          He belonged to a noble Prussian family of Dutch origin. The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent at eleven years of age to Paris to complete his education.

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        1. Who was Cloots?
        2. During the French Revolution, Jean-Baptiste “Anacharsis” Cloots (–) developed a theory of the world state as the means to guarantee perpetual peace.
        3. This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots () received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles ().
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          5. There he imbibed the theories of his uncle the Abbe Cornelius de Pauw (1739-1799), philosopher, geographer and diplomatist at the court of Frederick the Great. His father placed him in the military academy at Berlin, but he left it at the age of twenty and traversed Europe, preaching his revolutionary philosophy as an apostle, and spending his money as a man of pleasure.

          On the breaking out of the Revolution he returned in 1789 to Paris, thinking the opportunity favourable for establishing his dream of a universal family of nations. On the 19th of June 1790 he ap