Que s’est-il dit à la Convention les 15, 16 et 17 pluviôse an II ? Ou lorsque la naissance de la citoyenneté universelle provoque l’invention du « crime de lèse-humanité »

Serna, Pierre

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“…The fight against political slavery (as embodied by kings and tyrants) was linked with the fight against chattel slavery (as embodied by the plantations) and both were at the core of the republic and the universal citizenship that was defined alongside it in these crucial two days. 66 Both ills and crimes of lèsehumanity had a common origin-Empire. Here it is possible to identify a common thread with the SADH, whose members had already linked together the war against tyrannies with the abolition of slavery, two different forms of imperialism and colonialism, a thread that was already apparent in the 26-August Decree in its choice of recipients, and which was central to the activities of the SADH.…”

Section: A Republic At War Against Lèse-humanité Criminalsmentioning

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The Early ‘Republic of France’ as a Cosmopolitan Moment

Lorenzo¹,

Ferradou²

2022

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Recent historiography has shown that the French Revolution owed much of its initial impetus to transnational, transatlantic and trans-Channel developments. 6 Likewise, since J. G. A. Pocock's seminal study of the Atlantic republican tradition, historians have complexified the genealogies of republicanism, demonstrating that France was not outside the circulation of republican ideas, which was accelerated in the second half of the eighteenth century, and that it was necessary to take into account other political traditions-from the Athenian model to the Salamanca school of natural rights and resistance against tyranny-that have informed the different strands of republicanism. 7 Indeed, as Clément Thibaud recently pleaded, a 'polycentric' history of 'Atlantic republicanisms' is needed to avoid the pitfalls of exceptionalism, diffusionist models and linear genealogies. 8 However, it is the argument of this article that a coherent republican tradition existed, circulating across the Atlantic world, from which actors drew references and ideas that informed their worldviews and activities. To put it more clearly, we do not reify the idea of a single Atlantic republican tradition. Rather, we posit that republicanism was a reservoir of different ideas and languages, among which was an 'advanced' or 'radical' tradition, kept alive especially within the anglophone world since the English civil war of the seventeenth century. As Burke correctly identified, this tradition informed the French Revolution from its very inception but its apex came perhaps with the advent of the Republic in 1792.We focus here on the English republican tradition, justified in this approach by the fact that among the eighteen recipients of French citizenship on 26 August 1792, ten were from the English-speaking world, and that, on 25 September 1792, another act, this time voted by the newly founded Republican Convention, extended the list of recipients to five other British (

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Section: A Republic At War Against Lèse-humanité Criminalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Early ‘Republic of France’ as a Cosmopolitan Moment

Lorenzo¹,

Ferradou²

2022

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“…Belley (noir), élus députés de la province du Nord, le 22 septembre 1793, obtiennent de la Convention la ratification des mesures abolitionnistes des commissaires civils, le 4 février 1794. Selon Dufay qui prononce un long discours, les esclaves méritent d'être citoyens car ils ont combattu par les armes pour la République124 . Le décret de la Convention du 4 février 1794 dispose que « l'esclavage des Nègres dans toutes les colonies est aboli : en conséquence elle décrète que tous les hommes, sans distinction de couleur, domiciliés dans les colonies, sont citoyens Français, & jouiront de tous les droits assurés par la constitution.…”

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