French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History
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.
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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.
ForewordPrefacePt. 1Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights1Pt. 2The Documents331Defining Rights before 1789351Diderot, "Natural Law," 1755352Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration, 1763383Edict of Toleration, November 1787404Letter from Rabaut Saint Etienne on the Edict of Toleration, December 6, 1787415Zalkind Hourwitz, Vindication of the Jews, 1789486Abbe Raynal, From the Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770517Condorcet, Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781558Society 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, 1788589"Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King," January 1, 17896010Abbe Sieyes, What Is the Third Estate?, January 1789632The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 17897111Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 17897112Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 17897313Malouet, August 1, 17897514"Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," August 26, 1789773Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution8015Abbe Sieyes, Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 17898116Thouret, Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility, September 29, 17898217Speech of Robespierre Denouncing the New Conditions of Eligibility, October 22, 17898318Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 17898419Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 17898620Abbe Maury, December 23, 17898821Letter from French Actors, December 24, 17899022Prince de Broglie, December 24, 17899123Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 17909324La Fare, Bishop of Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 17909725Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 17919926The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 178910127Motion Made by Vincent Oge the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 178910328Abbe Gregoire, Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 178910529Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 5, 179010630Speech of Barnave, March 8, 179010931Kersaint, Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 179211232Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies11533Speech of Chaumette Celebrating the Abolition of Slavery, February 18, 179411634Condorcet, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 179011935Etta Palm D'Aelders, Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 179012236Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 179112437Prudhomme, "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 179112938Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 179313239Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 179313540Chaumette, Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women's Political Activism, November 17, 1793138App. Chronology140App. Questions for Consideration142App. Selected Bibliography145Index147
