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The Bastille, including the celebrated speech delivered the 29th of July to the French troops, by Mons. Moreau de St. Merry, on the destruction of the above fortress

1789 Subjects: Human rights, Revolutions Forms: Drama Translation Status: Partial English London URL

Authors of source text

Médéric-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry

Contributions

John Dent: translator; author
William Lowndes: publisher
W. More: publisher

Related resources

is translation of: Unknown 2 has translation

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British Library

Notes

URL refers to 2nd edition (1790).

This play by John Dent was the most popular and most spectacular of the several competing theatrical representations of the fall of the Bastille on the London stage in the weeks and months after the event. Only Moreau de St. Méry's speech is a translation. An original has not been found yet, however, so there is the possibility of a fake or fictional translation. The speech must have enjoyed a certain fame since it was often mentioned as part of the title of this play, e.g. in newspaper add in the Argus n. 195 (11 October 1789). See Norbert Schürer, The Storming of the Bastille in English Newspapers; Paul Rice, Britsh Music and the French Revolution, p. 85; Dale Townsend, Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840, p. 202.