The ruins, or a survey of the revolutions of empires, by M. Volney. Translated from the French
Authors of source text
Constantin-François de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney
Contributions
- James Marshall
- translator
- Joseph Johnson
- publisher
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Notes
Extracts from this translation appear to have been reprinted in Joseph Gales' fortnightly digest, 'The Patriot: or Political, Moral and Philosophical Repository', a journal "bubbling with 'French ideas'". See Gwyn A. Williams, 'Artisans and Sans-Culottes: Popular Movements in France and Britain during the French Revolution' (1968), p.59, and Albert Goodwin, 'Friends of Liberty' (1979), pp 99-135.
Volney considered this first translation too tame and would later oversee a new English version (translated by Joel Barlow and Thomas Jefferson) published in Paris in 1802. This version, which was frequently reprinted, would become the template for spreading his ideas through the Anglophone world.