Comment (et pourquoi) parler de Révolution sous le Consulat: la Correspondance politique et confidentielle inédite de Louis XVI, par Helen Maria Williams

Paolo Conte
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Paolo Conte: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of San Marino - University of San Marino

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Abstract: In 1803, the publication of the Correspondence of Louis XVI raises the attention of the Napoleonic censorship, preoccupied by the resurgence of the Bourbon party. However, the text has a different purpose, because the king's letters are accompanied by some observations aiming to reveal his duplicitous conduct. The author, Helen Maria Williams, is an English woman who moved to France at the beginning of the Revolution. By writing about the king and the end of his power, she aims to analyse the first revolutionary period in order to defend the activities of her friends, the Girondins, and to propose a new institutional solution for Consular France. This editorial operation is clearly part of a real political project which aims to extend the political battle that had started in 1789.Further evidence of this plan is the fact that the publisher of her work is her partner, John Stone, himself a revolutionary man from England, and that they translate in English the Correspondence to distribute it in the United States.

Keywords: Atlantic area; Immediate history; English immigrants; Translations; Political censorship; Espace atlantique; Histoire immédiate; immigrants anglais; Traductions; Censure politique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-13
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Published in La Révolution française - Cahiers de l’Institut d’histoire de la Révolution française, 2018, Économie politique et Révolution française, 15

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