Social and Polticial Thought of the French Revolution, 1788-1797 : An Anthology of Original Texts

by Goldstein, Marc Allan

• ISBN13: 9780820457086
• ISBN10: 0820457086
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Considerations on the Interests of the Third Estate	1	(10)
Rabaut Saint-Etienne
Essay on Privileges	11	(12)
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes
Petition of the Third Estate to the King	23	(5)
Taboureau de Montigny
What is the Third Estate?	28	(23)
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes
Grievances of the Fourth Order, that of the Poor Day Laborers, the Sick and the Indigent	51	(6)
Dufourney de Villiers
Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen	57	(9)
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes
Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	66	(5)
Jean-Paul Marat
Le Journal Politique de Bruxelles	71	(3)
Jacques Mallet du Pan
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	74	(3)
Thoughts on Governments and Principally on the Government Appropriate for France	77	(19)
Jean-Joseph Mounier
Le Journal Politique National	96	(9)
Antoine de Rivarol
Republicanism Adapted to France	105	(4)
Pierre-Francois-Joseph Robert
On the Organization of the National Guard	109	(5)
Maximilien Robespierre
On Property, or the Cause of the Poor Defended before the High Court of Reason, Justice and Virtue	114	(7)
Antoine Cournand
From the Constituent Assembly: On the Conditions of Eligibility	121	(23)
The Rights of the People over the National Assembly	144	(2)
Louis la Vicometerie
On the Authority and the Rights of the People in Government	146	(7)
Augustin Barruel (I'Abbe)
Proposal for a Special and Imperative Mandate	153	(8)
Jean-Francois Varlet
Inquiries into the Causes that Have Prevented the French from Becoming Free	161	(2)
Jean-Joseph Mounier
The Elements of Republicanism	163	(20)
Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
Cure for the Revolution	183	(15)
Pierre Sylvain Marechal
Constitutional Foundations of the Republic of Humankind	198	(12)
Jean-Baptiste (Anacharsis) Cloots
Manifesto of the Enrages	210	(8)
Jacques Roux
L'Ami du Peuple---July 23, 1793	218	(3)
Theophile Leclerc
Directive Addressed to the Constituted Authorities of the Departments of the Rhone and Loire ... by the Temporary Commission of Republican Vigilance...	221	(10)
Introduction to the French Revolution	231	(8)
Antoine-Pierre-Joseph-Marie Barnave
On Republican Institutions	239	(9)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Presentation of the Proposed Constitution to the Covention	248	(3)
Francois Antoine
Comte de Boissy d'Anglas
The Legislative and Executive Powers Appropriate to the French Republic	251	(5)
Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours
The Political State of Europe at the Beginning of 1796; or Considerations on the Most Effectual Means of Procuring a Solid and Permanent Peace	256	(4)
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
Le Tribun du Peuple, N°34	260	(2)
Francois-Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf
Le Tribun du Peuple, N°35	262	(21)
Francois-Noel (Gracchus) Babeuf
Theory of Political and Relgious Power in Civil Society...	283	(49)
Louis Gabriel Ambroise
Vicomte de Bonald
Considerations on France	332	(19)
Joseph Marie
Comte de Maistre
Index	351