Société des amis des droits de l'homme ('British club')

Paris political organisation

Contributions

1. Address from the English, Irish and Scotch residents at Paris has translation author

Members

• Edward FitzGerald military revolutionary traveller
• Helen Maria Williams novelist poet salonnière translator writer
• Joel Barlow diplomat entrepreneur freemason journalist poet politician translator writer
• John Hurford Stone entrepreneur publisher writer
• John Oswald military poet revolutionary translator writer
• Nicholas Madgett civil servant cleric translator writer
• Robert Merry poet translator writer
• Sampson Perry journalist pamphleteer physician publisher writer
• Thomas Christie entrepreneur physician translator writer
• Thomas Paine journalist philosopher revolutionary writer
• William Maxwell physician

Notes

A group of British, Irish, American and French republicans in Paris, established on 18 November 1792. Supported world revolution and tried to foment insurrection in Dublin. Called 'British Club' by Erdman.

See Steven Blakemore, Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution, p. 31.

Matthieu Ferradou,' Histoire d’un « festin patriotique » à l’hôtel White (18 novembre 1792) : les Irlandais patriotes à Paris, 1789-1795', Annales historiques de la Révolution française (2015).