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Les Bataves

1797 Subjects: Human rights, Revolutions Forms: Fiction Translation Status: Source-text French Paris URL

Contributions

Paul Jérémie Bitaubé
author
Jean-Baptiste Garnéry
publisher

Related resources

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The Batavians, or, virtue and valour crowned by perseverance. From the French of C. Bitaubé, member of the National Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres of Prussia translation

Summary (extracted citations)

From the preface: "Après en avoir publié un essai en 1775 vieux style, d'autres travaux littéraires me l'ont fait suspendre, et je l'avais enfin abandonné. S'il mérite quelque approbation, je dois à un inestimable amie de l'avoir repris; cette amie est la citoyenne Abeille". Les Bataves qui chante la délivrance des Provinces-Unies "offrent un tableau moral propre à inspirer la haine de l'oppression".

Notes

This epic prose poem in ten books, an epic account of the Dutch war for independence from Spain, was a greatly expanded reworking of the author's 'Guillaume, en dix chants' (Amsterdam, 1773) and 'Guillaume de Nassau' (Paris, 1775). It was reissued in a second, corrected edition in 1804 (see url).