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Sylvain Maréchal, The Godless Man
The first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the French Revolutionary era. Maréchal was not only a militant atheist and opponent of royalty, but, as the author of the Manifesto of the Equals he laid the groundwork for modern communism. With an introduction by Jean-Numa Ducange.
Anti-Saints
French Revolution journalist-poet's subversive, all-women saints' lives introduces English readers to Sylvain Maréchal's audacious wit.
The Woman Priest
"My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes—I feel this in the purity of my intentions." —Agatha, writing to Zoé In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest—a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in La Nouvelle France, which became part of British-run Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies.
For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal’s Pour et Contre la Bible (1801)
In For and Against the Bible (1801), Sheila Delany translates Sylvain Maréchal’s rationalist commentary on Jewish and Christian scripture. Atheist and supporter of the French Revolution, Maréchal hoped his text might remind compatriots of the values for which they had recently fought.
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The Permanent Guillotine
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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Sylvain Maréchal l'égalitaire
Du poème bucolique, mais rarement sans arrière-plan philosophique, aux ouvrages d'érudition sur l'Antiquité, de l'article polémique au dictionnaire, de la pièce de théâtre, du livret d'opéra, de la chanson au manifeste politique, il y a peu de genres littéraires auxquels Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) n'ait pas eu recours pour propager sa vision d'un monde libéré des oppressions, d'une humanité égalitaire et réconciliée. Athéiste moraliste, habité par les désastres sociaux à la fois origines et conséquences de l'inégalité des fortunes, ne voulant se référer qu'à la Nature, Sylvain Maréchal, par delà sa contribution aux débats de la Révolution française, peut encore aujourd'hui amplement nourrir la réflexion.
