The French Revolution and Human Rights : A Brief Documentary History

Foreword iii(2) Preface v PART ONE Introduction: The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights 1(32) PART TWO The Documents 33(107) 1. Defining Rights before 1789 35(36) Natural Law as Defined by the Encyclopedia 35(3) Diderot 1. "Natural Law," 1755 35(3) Religious Toleration 38(13) Voltaire 2. Treatise on Toleration, 1763 38(2) 3. Edict of Toleration, November 1787 40(4) 4. Letter from Rabaut Saint Etienne on the Edict of Toleration, December 6, 1787 44(4) Zalking Hourwitz 5. Vindication of the Jews, 1789 48(3) Antislavery Agitation 51(9) Abbe Raynal 6. From the Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1770 51(4) Condorcet 7. Reflections on Negro Slavery, 1781 55(3) 8. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Discourse on the Necessity of Establishing in Paris a Society for...the Abolition of the Slave Trade and of Negro Slavery, 1788 58(2) Women Begin to Agitate for Rights 60(3) 9. "Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King," January 1, 1789 60(3) Categories of Citizenship 63(8) Abbe Sieyes 10. What Is the Third Estate?, January 1789 63(8) 2. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 71(9) Debates about the Declaration of Rights, July and August 1789 71(6) 11. Marquis de Lafayette, July 11, 1789 71(2) 12. Duke Mathieu de Montmorency, August 1, 1789 73(2) 13. Malouet, August 1, 1789 75(2) The Declaration 77(3) 14. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen," August 26, 1789 77(3) 3. Debates over Citizenship and Rights during the Revolution 80(60) The Poor and the Propertied 80(4) Abbe Sieyes 15. Preliminary to the French Constitution, August 1789 81(1) Thouret 16. Report on the Basis of Political Eligibility, September 29, 1789 82(1) 17. Speech of Robespierre Denouncing the New Conditions of Eligibility, October 22, 1789 83(1) Religious Minorities and Questionable Professions 84(17) The First Controversies 84(9) 18. Brunet de Latuque, December 21, 1789 84(2) 19. Count de Clermont Tonnerre, December 23, 1789 86(2) 20. Abbe Maury, December 23, 1789 88(2) 21. Letter from French Actors, December 24, 1789 90(1) 22. Prince de Broglie, December 24, 1789 91(2) The Jewish Question 93(8) 23. Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790 93(4) 24. La Fare, Bishop of Nancy, Opinion on the Admissibility of Jews to Full Civil and Political Rights, Spring 1790 97(2) 25. Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship, September 27, 1791 99(2) Free Blacks and Slaves 101(18) 26. The Abolition of Negro Slavery or Means for Ameliorating Their Lot, 1789 101(2) 27. Motion Made by Vincent Oge the Younger to the Assembly of Colonists, 1789 103(2) Abbe Gregoire 28. Memoir in Favor of the People of Color or Mixed-Race of Saint Domingue, 1789 105(1) 29. Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 5, 1790 106(3) 30. Speech of Barnave, March 8, 1790 109(3) Kersaint 31. Discussion of Troubles in the Colonies, March 28, 1792 112(3) 32. Decree of the National Convention of February 4, 1794, Abolishing Slavery in All the Colonies 115(1) 33. Speech of Chaumette Celebrating the Abolition of Slavery, February 18, 1794 116(3) Women 119(21) Condorcet 34. "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship," July 1790 119(3) Etta Palm D'Aelders 35. Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favor of Men, at the Expense of Women, December 30, 1790 122(2) Olympe de Gouges 36. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791 124(5) Prudhomme 37. "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women," February 12, 1791 129(3) 38. Discussion of Citizenship under the Proposed New Constitution, April 29, 1793 132(3) 39. Discussion of Women's Political Clubs and Their Suppression, October 29-30, 1793 135(3) Chaumette 40. Speech at the General Council of the City Government of Paris Denouncing Women's Political Activism, November 17, 1793 138(2) Appendices 140(7) Chronology 140(2) Questions for Consideration 142(3) Selected Bibliography 145(2) Index 147