Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet: as delivered to the national convention
Authors of source text
Jean Henri Bancal des Issarts Thomas Paine
Contributions
- Anonymous (270)
- translator
- James Ridgway
- publisher
Related resources
- is translation of
- Opinion de Thomas Payne (sic), député du département de la Somme, concernant le Jugement de Louis XVI, précédée de sa lettre d'envoi au Président de la Convention translation has translation
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Notes
From the publisher's Address: "The enemies of Truth, in every Country, must read the following Paper with shame; and in pity to themselves, we hope with contrition and remorse… The person who presents this publication to the Public, presents it as a burnt-offering to Truth, in behalf of the most zealous friend and advocate of the Rights of Man; to protect him against the barbarous shafts of scandal and delusion, and as a reply to all the horrors which Despots of every description have, with such unrelenting malice, attempted to fix on this conduct. But truth in the end must triumph; cease then, such calumny, all your efforts are in vain – you bite against a file".
Another edition of this speech was reissued in 1796 by Daniel Eaton.