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Les aventures de Hugues Trevor, ou, Le Gilblas anglais. Traduit de l'anglais par le Cit. Cantwell

Year 6 (1798) Subjects: Adventure stories, Human rights, Forms: Fiction Translation Status: Integral French Paris URL

Authors of source text

Thomas Holcroft

Contributions

André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell
translator
Claude-François Maradan
publisher

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Notes

The source text is known as one the first British Jacobin novels. Cantwell was a radical translator who specialised in translating radical British texts into French. The present ranslation was announced in La Décade philosophique, year VI/3, n. 24, p. 372.

In the author's preface Holcroft stresses the novel's utility for moral education. Although the novel tells the story of particular heroes and their actions, he wants it to be taken as a representative of the wider human progress.

"Je considère tous les livres bien écrits qui discutent les actions des hommes, comme autant d'histoires des progrés de l'esprit humain" (xi).