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Opinion de Thomas Payne, sur l'affaire de Louis Capet: Adressée au Président de la Convention Nationale. Imprimé par ordre de la Convention Nationale

1791-11-21 Subjects: Politics and government Forms: Speeches Translation Status: Integral French Paris URL

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Thomas Paine

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uncertainty Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts: translator
Imprimerie nationale: publisher

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is translation of: On the propriety of bringing Louis XVI to trial has translation

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British Library

Notes

Paine's prefatory letter to the president of the Convention, which introduces his speech from 21 November 1792, explains that due to his inability to speak good French he is entrusting his speech to the president so that it can be read out during that morning's sitting. He believes that it's vital for France's interests that whatever their verdict, the King comes to no harm.

He also tells him that he is sending a copy to London to be printed in the English newspapers.

Bancal des Issarts as translator is indicated by David P. Jordan in The King's Trial: Louis XVI vs the French Revolution (1979), p.165. Michael Walzer indicates Condorcet as the translator in Regicide and Revolution (1974), p.127.