'Does France exist?'
Contributions
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
- author
Related resources
- is part of
- The General Evening Post
- is derivative of
- An address to the opposers of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts
- has translation
- La France existe-t-elle? Question traitée, dans le Général Evening-Post, du 25 mars 1790, par un illustre écrivain anglais, en faveur de la nouvelle constitution française: Traduite par M. Povolere, professeur de littérature anglaise, à la société polysophique translation
Notes
Closing pages from Barbauld's tract 'An address to the opposers of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts' (1790). It was also reprinted in the Belfast News Letter (July 1791). The title of the closing section was a riposte to Edmund Burke's rhetorical question from his army budget speech of February 1790, asking whether France would still exist after the Revolution? This made Barbauld Burke's first public opponent in print before the War of Pamphlets that followed his 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790).
See William McCarthy, 'Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment', pp.279-285.