1. Alan Spitzer, The French Generation of 1820 (Princeton, 1987).
2. Edgar Quinet, Histoire des mes idées (Paris, 1878), pp. 200–201; quoted in Spitzer, op. cit., p. 194.
3. Auguste Comte, “Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiser la société”, in Système de politique positive, 4th ed., 4 vols. (Paris, 1851–54), Appendice général, pp. 58–9.
4. Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat?, ed., Zapperi (Paris, 1970), p. 151. Sieyès used the term science sociale in the first edition of his pamphlet, replacing it with “la science de l'ordre social” in later editions. See Brian W. Head, “The Origins of ‘La Science Sociale’ in France, 1770–1800”, Australian Journal of French Studies 19 (1982): 115–29.
5. On this theme, see Baker, “Sieyès”, in François Furet and Mona Ozouf, eds., Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française (Paris, 1988), pp. 334–45.