Thomas Paine answers, from Paris in summer …
Years: 1792 - 1792
June
Thomas Paine answers, from Paris in summer of 1792, British the sedition and libel charges thus: "If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous ... let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb". (Thomas Paine, Letter Addressed To The Addressers On The Late Proclamation, in Michael Foot, Isaac Kramnick (ed.), The Thomas Paine Reader, p. 374))
Locations
People
Groups
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- United States of America (US, USA) (Philadelphia PA)
- French First Republic
Topics
- French Revolution
- First Coalition, War of the
- French Revolutionary Wars, or “Great French War”
- French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1793
