Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº II by Condorcet et al.
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Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº II by Condorcet et al. is a political journal issue written in the late 18th century. It collects revolutionary-era essays and reports that examine church–state relations, the distribution of war and peace powers, and developments in industrial chemistry. The likely topic is the reform of institutions during the French Revolutionary period, with an emphasis on civil liberty, constitutional design, and economic modernization. The opening
essay defends absolute freedom of conscience, rejects any privileged national religion, and urges civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, along with a common, secular public education that prevents clergy from acting as a political corporation; it tolerates temporary public funding of ministers only as a measure for order. A long political analysis explains the decree on declaring war: the executive may propose but cannot act without the legislature, both can prevent war, and the piece weighs risks of popular agitation, foreign influence, and the ambiguities of the veto while proposing safeguards such as renouncing conquest, limiting royal command of armies, and building an armed citizenry to secure peace. The correspondence section reproduces a resolution by parish priests planning a public stand in defense of religion, denouncing incendiary writings, recording their act in municipal registers, and affirming adherence to the Assembly’s decrees. The final “Varieties” article describes a new process for producing soda from sea salt, highlighting byproducts (muriatic acid and sal-ammoniac), projected benefits for soap, glass, and textile bleaching, reduced reliance on imports, and the formation of a nationwide manufacturing venture. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794 |
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| Author | Grouvelle, Philippe-Antoine, 1757-1806 |
| Author | Hassenfratz, J. H. (Jean-Henri), 1755-1827 |
| Author | Pressac de la Chagnaye, Louis-François-Dominique-Norbert, 1751-1822 |
| Title | Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº II |
| Original Publication | Paris: Lejay fils, Libraire, 1790. |
| Credits | Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco |
| Subject | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Periodicals |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78080 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
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