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Le Bien informé

1797/1799 Forms: Serial publications French Paris

Contributions

Marguerite Brazier: translator
Antoine-Gilbert Griffet de Labaume: journalist
Nicolas de Bonneville: journalist
Thomas Paine: journalist
Imprimerie-librairie du Cercle Social (Imprimerie du Cercle Social): publisher

Related resources

has part: Thomas Paine au Conseil des Cinq-Cents translation

Summary (extracted citations)

"Pour etre libre il faut etre juste"

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

Notes

Nicolas de Bonneville was its founding editor and most of the translations were done by his wife, Marguerite Brazier Bonneville [cf Keane, 437]. The publication was almost banned after Bonneville mocked the abbé Sieyès (one of the Directors) in the issue of 17 Sept 1798.

Many issues promoted Paine's agenda for imminent revolution in Ireland, or proposed a maritime invasion of Britain. See for example, issues from 31 Oct, 15 Dec 1797, and 15 & 29 Jan 1798.

Having previously argued that the principles of the rights of man would surely triumph over might (for example, in 'Agrarian Justice'), Paine became convinced “that principles need platoons”, and argued that the British people would be supportive of such an invasion, “the mass of the people are friends to liberty”.

See John Keane, 'Tom Paine, A political life' (1995), p.437ff and Henry Redhead Yorke, 'France in Eighteen Hundred and Two', ed. J.A.C Sykes (1906), p.224.