The French Revolution and human rights : a brief documentary history / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunt, Lynn, 1945-

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

Bedford series in history and culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture--France--History--18th century.

Politics and culture.

Human rights--France--History--Revolution, 1789-1794.

Human rights.

History.

Social aspects.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Social aspects.

France.

Physical Description:

x, 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, [1996]

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights

Part 2 The Documents

1 Defining Rights before 1789

Natural Law as Defined by the Encyclopedia

1 Diderot, "Natural Law" 1755

Religious Toleration

2 Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration, 1763

3 Edict of Toleration, November 1787

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

5 Zalkind Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews, 1789

Antislavery Agitation

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

7 Condorcet, Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781

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

Women Begin to Agitate for Rights

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

Categories of Citizenship

10 Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?, January, 1789

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

Debates about the Declaration of Rights, July and August 1789

11 Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 1789

12 Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 1789

13 Malouet, August 1, 1789

The Declaration

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

3 Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution

The Poor and the Propertied

15 Abbé Sieyès, Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 1789

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

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

Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions

The First Controversies

18 Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789

19 Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789

20 Abbé Maury, December 23, 1789

21 Letter from French Actors, December 24, 1789

22 Prince de Broglie, December 24, 1789

The Jewish Question

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

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

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

Free Blacks and Slaves

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

27 Motion Made by Vincent Ogé the Youger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789

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

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

30 Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790

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

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

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

Women

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

35 Etta Palm D'Aelders, Discourse on the Injustice of Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790

36 Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of Rights of Woman, September 1791

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312108028

OCLC:

34725744