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Dix-septième lettre de Caton, traduite de l'anglais de Thomas Gordon

1790 Subjects: Conduct of life, Politics and government, Republicanism Forms: Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. Translation Status: Partial French Paris

Authors of source text

John Trenchard Thomas Gordon

Contributions

Jean-Louis Chalmel: translator
François-Jean Baudouin: publisher

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is translation of: Cato's letters or essays, on liberty, civil and religious, and other important subjects has translation

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Notes

Hammersley, The English Republican tradition, p. 14-22; 153-156, 162. Hammersley notes in particular the influence of Daudé's 1742 translation of Thomas Gordon's Discourses on Tacitus as an important source for Camille Desmoulin, who quoted this translation in Le Vieux Cordelier, and had a copy of this discourse in his library. As Hammersley notes 'Gordon drew a parallel between republican and imperial Rome, on the one hand, and the eighteenth-century English and French monarchies, on the other' p. 155. Daudé's translation was 'republished by François Buisson in l'an II (1794) and in his 'Avis' the editor insisted that the utility of the work lay in its support of republicanism.' p.155