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Observations sur la dernière constitution de la France, avec des vues pour la formation de la nouvelle constitution: Traduit de l'anglois par le citoyen Maudru

Year 2 (1793) Subjects: Law, Politics and government Forms: Article in periodical, Legislative materials Translation Status: Integral French Paris

Authors of source text

David Williams

Contributions

Jean-Baptiste Maudru: translator
Imprimerie du Cercle Social: publisher

Related resources

is part of: Chronique du mois
is translation of: Observations on the late constitution of France with a view to the formation of a new constitution has translation

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

Notes

Williams came to Paris in December 1792 at Brissot's invitation. This tract was his contribution to the constitutional debates of 1793. It was also published as an article in La Chronique du mois (March 1793), pp.39-65 (see Gallica). One oddity is that while the translated prefatory note is dated 3 Jan 1793, the English MS – never published and now conserved in the Cardiff Public Library (Ms. 2.192) – which he delivered to Brissot, is dated 7 Jan 1793. Lanthenas refers to Williams' pamphlet in Bases fondementales, pp.71-73.

See Rachel Rogers, Vectors of Revolution, p. 239 and Dybikowski, p.318.