Défense du peuple anglais sur le jugement et la condamnation de Charles Premier, roi d'Angleterre, par Milton: Ouvrage propre à éclairer sur la circonstance actuelle où se trouve la France. Réimprimé aux frais des administrateurs du département de la Drôme
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- Jean-Baptiste Salaville
- translator
- Pierre Aurel
- publisher
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Notes
Re-edition of Salaville's 'Théorie de la Royauté, d'après Milton', without Mirabeau's long preface. The first edition had been mostly burned by the publisher Le Jay, who feared prosecution for the publication of a work that could be understood to defend (and even encourage) regicide. That same quality persuaded the council of the Drôme department to order its reprinting three years later, as a contribution to the debate over Louis XVI's trial. Mirabeau himself, who had died by that time, never meant his translation of Milton as a republican statement. He intended it as a contribution to the establishment of constitutional monarchy.
See Rachel Hammersley, 'The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France: between the ancients and the moderns' (Manchester University Press, 2013), p.180.