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Title

The French Revolution and human rights : a brief history with documents / Lynn Hunt.

Author

Hunt, Lynn, 1945-

Publication

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016.

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Details

Description

xi, 148 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

This new edition of The French Revolution and Human Rights, A Brief History with Documents offers a new section covering limits on rights to complement its rich exploration of the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. Lynn Hunt, a leading scholar of the French Revolution, presents original translations and commentary on the debates and legislation that helped define modern notions of human rights. Her revised introduction provides an overview of the French development of the concept of human rights and the consequences that resulted from putting those rights into practice. A new section on national security and the limits on rights gives readers a sense of the issues that led French revolutionaries to suppress rights in the name of the nation and its security. Helpful editorial features include document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Series Statement

The Bedford series in history and culture

Uniform Title

Bedford series in history and culture.

Subjects

• France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Social aspects > Sources
• Human rights > France > History > Revolution, 1789-1794 > Sources
• Politics and culture > France > History > 18th century > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.

Contents

• PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: The Revolutionary Origin of Human Rights. Defining Rights Before 1789 ; The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 ; Debates over Citizenship and Rights During the Revolution ; National Security and Limits on Rights -- PART TWO. The Documents. Defining Rights before 1789. Natural Law as Defined by the Encylopedia, 1755: 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. Ǎbb 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. Ǎbb Sieÿs, What Is the Third Estate?, January 1789 ; 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 ; Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution: 15. Ǎbb Sieÿs, 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: 18. Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789 ; 19. Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789 ; 20. Ǎbb Maury, December 23, 1789 ;
• 21. Letter from the French Actors, December 24, 1789 ; 22. Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790 ; 23. La Fare, Bishop of Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 1790 ; 24. Admissions of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 1791 ; Free Blacks and Slaves: 25. The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789 ; 26. Motion Made by Vincent Og the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789 ; 27. Ǎbb Gřgoire, Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789 ; 28. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 5, 1790 ; 29. Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790 ; 30. Kersaint, Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 1792 ; 31. Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies ; Women : 32. Condorcet, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 1790 ; 33. Etta Palm D'Adelders, Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790 ; 34. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791 ; 35. Prudhomme, "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 1791 ; 36. Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 1793 ; 37. Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 1793 ; 38. Chaumette, Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women's Political Activism, November 17, 1793 ; National Security and Limits on Rights: 39. Law Forbidding Workers' Guilds or Professional Corporations, June 14, 1791 ; 40. Law Suppressing Religious Communities and Prohibiting Religious Dress in Public, April 6, 1792 ; 41. Law on Suspects, September 17, 1793 ; 42. Law Limiting Rights of Defendants, June 10, 1794 -- APPENDIXES. A Chronology of the French Revolution and Human Rights (1751-1799) ; Questions for Consideration ; Selected Bibliography ; Index.

Call Number

JFD 17-691

ISBN

• 1319049036
• 9781319049034

OCLC

930997454

Author

Hunt, Lynn, 1945-

Title

The French Revolution and human rights : a brief history with documents / Lynn Hunt.

Imprint

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016.

Edition

Second edition

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Bedford series in history and culture

Bedford series in history and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-691