Which historical figure called the English ‘A nation of shopkeepers’?
Nation of shopkeepers benefitted from the Bank of England's issuance of inconvertible banknotes, a "temporary" measure which remained from the 1790s until 1821. Nation of shopkeepers The phrase "a nation of shopkeepers", commonly attributed to Napoleon, is a reference to England or the United Kingdom. There is reason to doubt that Napoleon ever used it. No contemporaneous French newspaper mentions that he did. The phrase was first used in an offensive sense by the French revolutionary Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac on June 11, 1794 in a speech to the National Convention: “Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers”.
Historical figure a historical figure. E. P. Sanders, author of "The Historical Figure of Jesus", called Jesus of Nazareth "one of the most important figures in human history". Various writers have struggled to present "historical" views of Jesus, as opposed to views distorted by belief. When writing about this subject, a historian who relies only on sources other than the New Testament may be criticized for implying that it is not a sufficient source of information about the subject. The theologian Martin Kähler is known for his work "Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus" (The so-called historical Jesus, and