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Most eighteenth-century scholars do not specifically isolate Roman from Greek sources. The monumental work of Grell 1995 is arguably the best starting point to understand the pervasive presence of ancient (and specifically Roman) sources and ideas, but also to find one’s bearings in this field – although Grell’s general interpretive framework should not be taken for granted. For a useful summary of the diversity of domains where the ‘goût de l’antique’ expresses itself, see Bouineau 1986: 15–31. See Trabulsi 2009: Chapter 8, however, for the convincing claim that eighteenth-century France’s version of antiquity is more Roman than Greek and more political than anything else (see more specifically Trabulsi 2009: 219–223, for some key Roman references during the Revolution). For a brief comparative overview of the presence of the Roman Republic in the two major revolutions of the late eighteenth century, see Pii 1997. Sellers 2014 offers a useful starting point for Montesquieu’s Rome, one of the most authoritative voices in eighteenth-century France, while Launay 1972 provides a reading of Rousseau’s (largely neglected) early Roman republicanism.