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The French Revolution and Human Rights A Brief Documentary History

by: Hunt, Lynn

The French Revolution and Human Rights A Brief Documentary History

by: Hunt, Lynn

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9780312108021
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0312108028
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Copyright: 04/15/1996
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.

Foreword

iii

(2)

Preface

PART ONE Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights

(32)

PART TWO The Documents

(107)

1. Defining Rights before 1789

(36)

Natural Law as Defined by the Encyclopedia

(3)

Diderot

1. "Natural Law," 1755

(3)

Religious Toleration

(13)

Voltaire

2. Treatise on Toleration, 1763

(2)

3. Edict of Toleration, November 1787

(4)

4. Letter from Rabaut Saint Etienne on the Edict of Toleration, December 6, 1787

(4)

Zalking Hourwitz

5. Vindication of the Jews, 1789

(3)

Antislavery Agitation

(9)

Abbe Raynal

6. From the Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770

(4)

Condorcet

7. Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781

(3)

8. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Discourse on the Necessity of Establishing in Paris a Society for...the Abolition of the Slave Trade and of Negro Slavery, 1788

(2)

Women Begin to Agitate for Rights

(3)

9. "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King," January 1, 1789

(3)

Categories of Citizenship

(8)

Abbe Sieyes

10. What Is the Third Estate?, January 1789

(8)

2. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789

(9)

Debates about the Declaration of Rights, July and August 1789

(6)

11. Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 1789

(2)

12. Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 1789

(2)

13. Malouet, August 1, 1789

(2)

The Declaration

(3)

14. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," August 26, 1789

(3)

3. Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution

(60)

The Poor and the Propertied

(4)

Abbe Sieyes

15. Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 1789

(1)

Thouret

16. Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility, September 29, 1789

(1)

17. Speech of Robespierre Denouncing the New Conditions of Eligibility, October 22, 1789

(1)

Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions

(17)

The First Controversies

(9)

18. Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789

(2)

19. Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789

(2)

20. Abbe Maury, December 23, 1789

(2)

21. Letter from French Actors, December 24, 1789

(1)

22. Prince de Broglie, December 24, 1789

(2)

The Jewish Question

(8)

23. Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790

(4)

24. La Fare, Bishop of Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 1790

(2)

25. Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 1791

(2)

Free Blacks and Slaves

101

(18)

26. The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789

101

(2)

27. Motion Made by Vincent Oge the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789

103

(2)

Abbe Gregoire

28. Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789

105

(1)

29. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 5, 1790

106

(3)

30. Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790

109

(3)

Kersaint

31. Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 1792

112

(3)

32. Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies

115

(1)

33. Speech of Chaumette Celebrating the Abolition of Slavery, February 18, 1794

116

(3)

Women

119

(21)

Condorcet

34. "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 1790

119

(3)

Etta Palm D'Aelders

35. Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790

122

(2)

Olympe de Gouges

36. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791

124

(5)

Prudhomme

37. "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 1791

129

(3)

38. Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 1793

132

(3)

39. Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 1793

135

(3)

Chaumette

40. Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women's Political Activism, November 17, 1793

138

(2)

Appendices

140

(7)

Chronology

140

(2)

Questions for Consideration

142

(3)

Selected Bibliography

145

(2)

Index

147

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