De la souveraineté du peuple, et de l'excellence d'un état libre. Par Marchamont Needham: Traduit de l'anglais, et enrichi de notes de J.J. Rousseau, Mably, Bossuet, Condillac, Montesquieu, Letrosne, Raynal, etc. etc. etc. Par Théophile Mandar
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- De la souveraineté du peuple, et de l'excellence d'un état libre. Par Marchamont Needham: Traduit de l'anglais, et enrichi de notes de J.J. Rousseau, Mably, Bossuet, Condillac, Montesquieu, Letrosne, Raynal, etc. etc. etc. Par Théophile Mandar translation paratext
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Mandar added a lot of material to the source-text: a long preface, many footnotes, two appendices, a 'Lettre du traducteur à Guillaume Tibbatts' and his 'Observations sur l'esclavage et le commerce des nègres' (both volume 2). The appendix to volume 1 contains fragments from Machiavelli (chapters VII and VIII of 'The Prince', to compare with Nedham) followed by his own reflections. The appendix to volume 2, p 189-200, contains the first chapter of the third book of 'Du contract social' preceded by Mandar's comparison between Nedham and Rousseau. It is followed by an editor's note and Mandar's letter to Guillaume Tibbats.
Reviews by Louise de Kéralio-Robert in Le Mercure (14 January 1791, the Moniteur (February 1791) and the Journal du club des Cordeliers (n. 4, p. 32-34, July 1791) and again the Moniteur (8 August 1791).
Raymonde Monnier noted that the French reception of the work likens Nedham's theory to Rousseau's republicanism. See the avant-propos of Monnier's edition, p. 13 and further. Extensively discussed in Rachel Hammersley, 'French revolutionaries and English republicans', p. 56-83.