Authors: Lynn Hunt, Lynn Hunt
ISBN-13: 9780312108021, ISBN-10: 0312108028
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: April 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
LYNN HUNT, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at University of California at Los Angeles, received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978), Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984), and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992); she is also the co-author of Telling the Truth About History (1994), co-author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001, with CD-ROM), editor of The New Cultural History (1989), editor and translator of The French Revolution and Human Rights (1996), and co-editor of Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995), Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999), and Human Rights and Revolutions (2000). She has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.
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 | ||
Preface | ||
Pt. 1 | Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights | 1 |
Pt. 2 | The Documents | 33 |
1 | Defining Rights before 1789 | 35 |
1 | Diderot, "Natural Law," 1755 | 35 |
2 | Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration, 1763 | 38 |
3 | Edict of Toleration, November 1787 | 40 |
4 | Letter from Rabaut Saint Etienne on the Edict of Toleration, December 6, 1787 | 41 |
5 | Zalkind Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews, 1789 | 48 |
6 | Abbe Raynal, From the Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770 | 51 |
7 | Condorcet, Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781 | 55 |
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 | 58 |
9 | "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King," January 1, 1789 | 60 |
10 | Abbe Sieyes, What Is the Third Estate?, January 1789 | 63 |
2 | The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 | 71 |
11 | Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 1789 | 71 |
12 | Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 1789 | 73 |
13 | Malouet, August 1, 1789 | 75 |
14 | "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," August 26, 1789 | 77 |
3 | Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution | 80 |
15 | Abbe Sieyes, Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 1789 | 81 |
16 | Thouret, Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility, September 29, 1789 | 82 |
17 | Speech of Robespierre Denouncing the New Conditions of Eligibility, October 22, 1789 | 83 |
18 | Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789 | 84 |
19 | Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789 | 86 |
20 | Abbe Maury, December 23, 1789 | 88 |
21 | Letter from French Actors, December 24, 1789 | 90 |
22 | Prince de Broglie, December 24, 1789 | 91 |
23 | Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790 | 93 |
24 | La Fare, Bishop of Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 1790 | 97 |
25 | Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 1791 | 99 |
26 | The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789 | 101 |
27 | Motion Made by Vincent Oge the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789 | 103 |
28 | Abbe Gregoire, Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789 | 105 |
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 |
30 | Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790 | 109 |
31 | Kersaint, Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 1792 | 112 |
32 | Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies | 115 |
33 | Speech of Chaumette Celebrating the Abolition of Slavery, February 18, 1794 | 116 |
34 | Condorcet, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 1790 | 119 |
35 | Etta Palm D'Aelders, Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790 | 122 |
36 | Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791 | 124 |
37 | Prudhomme, "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 1791 | 129 |
38 | Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 1793 | 132 |
39 | Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 1793 | 135 |
40 | Chaumette, Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women's Political Activism, November 17, 1793 | 138 |
App. Chronology | 140 | |
App. Questions for Consideration | 142 | |
App. Selected Bibliography | 145 | |
Index | 147 |