“Rights of Man” in America
The Rights of Man won an audience in the 1790’s because the Federalists in power moved away from accommodation towards coercion. Federalists strung the “strings” which Rights of Man could “vibrate”.
The Bonneville Family and Thomas Paine
To Madame Bonneville November 15, 1802
From the original letter at TPNHA Collection at Iona College. Washington Nov 15 1802 My Dear Madam and my dear Boys I this moment received your letter with great pleasure for I was anxious for your safety on the passage, as the weather with us was several times stormy. You enclose me a bill for
To Messiurs Condorcet, Bonneville, and Lanthenas 1 June, 1791.
Note from the Thomas Paine Historical Association: Nicolas de Bonneville was a prominent French publicist and litterateur; Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet was an eminent French philosopher, mathematician and liberal, and M. Lanthenas later translated Paine’s Rights of Man into French-Editor. PARIS, GENTLEMEN : I have been informed by M. Duchatelet that it is the purpose of
To Messiurs Condorcet, Bonneville, and Lanthenas 1 June, 1791. Read Post »