A LETTER FROM M. CONDORCET, A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, TO A MAGISTRATE IN SWISSERLAND, RESPECTING THE MASSACRE OF THE SWISS GUARDS ON THE 10th OF AUGUST, &c. WITH A LETTER FROM THOMAS PAINE, TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE, ON HIS ELECTION TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ABSTRACT OF THAT SYSTEM OF DESPOTISM, WHICH HAS BEEN OVERTURNED BY THE FRENCH...
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New York, 1793.. 29pp. Dbd. Tanned, some scattered foxing, else very good. "Thomas Paine was now world famous as a liberal and considered most knowledgeable in the new republican form of government...his defense of the French Revolution so endeared him to the French people that he had been elected by four French provinces to represent them in the National Convention" - Gimbel. Paine's first remarks to the Convention, in the form of a thank-you to his electors, are reprinted herein. EVANS 25327. GIMBEL 75 (ref).
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- A LETTER FROM M. CONDORCET, A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION, TO A MAGISTRATE IN SWISSERLAND, RESPECTING THE MASSACRE OF THE SWISS GUARDS ON THE 10th OF AUGUST, &c. WITH A LETTER FROM THOMAS PAINE, TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE, ON HIS ELECTION TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ABSTRACT OF THAT SYSTEM OF DESPOTISM, WHICH HAS BEEN OVERTURNED BY THE FRENCH...
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