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OEUVRES

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CAMILLE DESMOULINS

Député à la Convention nationale, doyen des Jacobins


LA FRANCE LIBRE
DISCOURS DE LA LANTERNE --- LA CORRESPONDANCE
LE VIEUX CORDELIER

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I've recently come into a copy of Oeuvres de Camille Desmoulins, and, since it's not all that easy to find, am undertaking to type it out and make it available to the general public (by which I mean, that very small portion of the general public consisting of a few of my friends who are interested). This journal is the "available" part.

Camille Desmoulins was a French Revolutionary and journalist, active from the beginning of the Revolution in 1789 until his death in 1794. He produced a number of pamphlets and newspapers, as well as a sizeable body of correspondence, some of which was collected and published together in 1865. This is the book I'm working from. It contains the pamphlet La France libre, the paper Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens, as well as several editorials on then-current events and historically-relevant letters, mainly to his father. (There is a later edition which contains both a larger and more varied collection of letters, and extracts from Révolutions de France et de Brabant. I can and will be getting my hands on this.) And, of course, his best-known work, Le Vieux Cordelier.

This is all in French, and I apologise for not having an English translation on hand. I'm not quite conversant enough in French to translate with any degree of competence, but I still plan to do it eventually. In the meantime, I can do small passages passing well (and will, if asked), but for now we're going to have to deal with the original French. I can, however, offer this extremely useful resource to anyone with any knowledge of French: various French dictionaries in a searchable format, including two from the revolutionary era (1788 and 1798 -- and one from 1835, if that's your bent), so it's possible to find meanings which have since changed. Also useful are French-English dictionaries.

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