Permanent Guillotine, The: Writings of the Sans-Culottes (Revolutionary Pocketbooks) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1629633887 ISBN 13: 9781629633886

Verlag: PM Press, 2018

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When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, it wasn’t a crowd of breeches-wearing professionals that attacked the prison, it was the working people of Paris. The Permanent Guillotine is an anthology of figures who expressed the will and wishes of this nascent revolutionary class, in all its rage, directness, and contradictoriness.

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Mitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations.

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The Permanent Guillotine

Writings of the Sans-Culottes

By Mitchell Abidor

PM Press

Copyright © 2018 PM Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62963-388-6

Contents

Introduction, 
A Sans-Culotte Miscellanea, 
The Permanent Guillotine, 
The Sans-Culotte Alphabet, 
You Won't Thumb Your Noses at Us!, 
Second and Final Address of the Brave Sans-Culottes, 
The Popular Society of Sans-Culottes of Nîmes, 
Jacques Roux (1752–1794), 
Manifesto of the Enragés, 
The Agony of the Cruel Antoinette, 
Interrogation Concerning Marat's Assassination, 
The Awakening of the Revolutionary Tribunal, 
Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794), 
Religion Is the Greatest Obstacle, 
Speech Given in the Name of the Prussian Fédérés, 
Speech on Behalf of the Committee of Foreigners, 
Jacques Hébert (1757–1794), 
Important Advice from Père Duchesne to the Aristocrats, 
The Grand Army of Père Duchesne, 
The Great Anger of Père Duchesne against the Moderates, 
The Great Anger of Père Duchesne against the Rich, 
The Great Joy of Père Duchesne, 
J.R. Hébert, Deputy Procurator of the Commune, 
Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), 
The Festival of Reason, 
The Catechism of the Curé Meslier, 

CHAPTER 1

A SANS-CULOTTE MISCELLANEA

* THE PERMANENT GUILLOTINE

(popular song of the sans-culottes)

Deputy Guillotin
In medicine
Quite expert and quite clever,
Made a machine.
To purge the French body
Of all those who plot.
It's the guillotine, ohé!
It's the guillotine!

To punish treason,
And high rapine,
Those lovers of coats of arms
Those people, you can guess who:
Those are who we made it for,
Those whose effect we know.
It's the guillotine, ohé!
It's the guillotine!

From having plotted,
That mutinous horde
Unexpectedly came down with
A bad headache.
One day,
In order to cure these gentlemen
We'll lead them
To the guillotine, ohé!
To the guillotine!

From France we've chased
The noble vermin,
We've swept crushed and,
Reduced everything to ruin,
But we've saved the nobleman
So as to kill him with a cut of the neck
By the guillotine, ohé!
By the guillotine.

Messieurs the noble mutineers,
Every one of whom vainly strives,
To foment civil war;

If we take you truly
You'll die very nobly.
On the guillotine, ohé!
On the guillotine.

The tenth procured us
A hearty task,
The traitors abounded,
Worse than a plague.
Since we don't want to miss any
We punish without uprooting it.
Yes, the machine remains, ohé!
The machine remains.

* THE SANS-CULOTTE ALPHABET; OR, THE FIRST ELEMENTS OF REPUBLICAN EDUCATION

Dedicated to the Young Sans-Culottes In their hearts new and pure, opening to life, Let us engrave in strokes of fire the love of the Fatherland.

I

Q: Who are you?

A:A Republican

Q: Who do you belong to?

A:The Fatherland

II

Q: What should you adore?

A:The Supreme Being.

Q: Through which sect?

A:You are free to choose.

Q: Which is preferable?

A:That of nature and reason.

Q: Tell me what this sect is.

A:It's that which unites us with the Supreme Being or separates us from it.

Q: How does it unite us?

A:Through virtue.

Q: How are we separated from it?

A:Through crime.

Q: Why should this sect be preferred?

A:Because it is free of any superstition.

Q: How does one recognize superstition?

A:By its exaggerated dogmas, which tend to arm citizens the one against the other.

Q: Does this sect consist of vain ceremonies?

A:No.

Q: Then in what?

A:In pure morals, which will make humanity a people of brothers.

III. On Morality

Q: What is the primary duty of a republican?

A:That of being immutably and invincibly fixed on the good.

Q: Why?

A:Because this principle ensures his eternal happiness.

Q: What is the most essential duty of a republican?

A:That of submitting to the laws of his Fatherland.

Q: What should a republican most frequently discuss?

A:Justice, and for it alone he should work.

Q: What difference is there between men?

A:That of crime and virtue.

Q: What is the most useful estate?

A:That of the agriculturalist.

Q: Why?

A:Because he nourishes the others.

Q: What is a republican's distinction?

A:Merit.

Q: His reward?

A:Glory.

Q: Define glory.

A:It is reputation conjoined with esteem.

Q: What are the sentiments innate to the soul of a republican?

A:The love of liberty and equality and the hatred of tyrants.

Q: What is the term of these sentiments?

A:Death.

Q: What is a tyrant?

A:It is a man who through violence or ruse was able to expropriate the people's sovereignty.

Q:What should you honor?

A:Old age and those to whom I owe my birth.

Q: How should you honor those to whom you owe your birth?

A:By profiting from their instruction.

Q: What are the greatest and first of all virtues?

A:The love of the Fatherland and of humanity.

Q: The most satisfying?

A:Hospitality.

Q: Whom should you assist?

A:All the unfortunate.

Q: Should you forget insults?

A:Yes.

Q: And good deeds?

A:Never.

Q: Can you take the property of others?

A:No.

Q: Why?

A:Because I wouldn't want anyone to take mine.

Q: What are the distinctive qualities of a republican?

A:A great and strong soul. And this grandeur and strength should never lead him to make much of himself, but rather to vanquish himself, to commit no base deeds.

Q: What does the honor of a republican consist of?

A:Of never being frightened of any danger, of not retreating before any labor when it is useful to the Fatherland.

Q: How should a republican be raised?

A:In great sobriety, in the study of justice and war, in the exercise of all social and patriotic virtues, in great horror of all vices, especially that of ingratitude, and in great emulation for glory.

Q: Why in great sobriety?

A:Because sobriety preserves the health of the mind and the body.

Q: Why in the study of justice?

A:Because man's happiness derives from this study.

Q: Why in that of war?

A:In order to learn how to vanquish the enemies of the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629633887
• ISBN 13: 9781629633886
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Herausgeber: Abidor Mitchell
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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