Décadence et chute du système des finances de l'Angleterre par Th. Paine. Traduit de l'anglais par F. Lanthenas
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Notes
On 27 April 1796, Paine presented copies of this translation "to the French people" as well as the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Elders. The pamphlet generated considerable debate especially for its prediction that the belligerent English government was nearing collapse. The Council of Elders voted for its official printing and distribution and the Directory immediately ordered 1000 copies for publicity purposes, considering it, “the most combustible weapon which France could at this moment employ to overthrow and destroy the English government” [Keane, 428 & 604 fn.].
A few weeks later, the Directory arranged the printing of a German-language edition, translated by Dorsch, intended to influence the financiers of Holland, Switzerland and Germany. A hundred copies were immediately sent to the Foreign Ministry for distribution abroad by French agents.
See John Keane, 'Tom Paine, A Political Life' (1995), p.427ff.