Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political treatise written by Edmund Burke, an Irish statesman, and published in November 1790. It is mostly a comparison of the French Revolution at the time with the unwritten British Constitution, as well as a debate with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. Reflections is a defining tract of contemporary conservatism as well as an essential addition to international thought. It is one of the most well-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution. Reflections is described as the "most eloquent statement of British conservatism favoring monarchy, aristocracy, property, hereditary succession, and the wisdom of the ages." in the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Above all, it was a pivotal moment in Edmund Burke's transition of "traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism"