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Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens: By the National Assembly of France

Subjects: Human rights, Law Forms: Legislative materials Printing and Publishing Status: Re-issues Translation Status: Integral

Authors of source text

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès Thomas Jefferson Richard Price National Constituent Assembly Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

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Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen has translation
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Rights of man. Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution has translation

Notes

J. D. C. Clark, Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), suggests that this 'translation was almost identical with the English translation in Richard Price’s A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789), appendix, 6. Price’s own fluency in French is in doubt, and he was probably supplied with the translation by another. Price and Paine may independently have copied from an English source. However, there was no separate publication of an English translation of the Déclaration in 1789-91, which makes it likely that Paine copied the text from Price’s widely known Discourse.’ (424)