Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº II by Condorcet et al.
Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº II by Condorcet et al. is a political periodical compiled in the late 18th century. It presents revolutionary-era essays and reports that probe church–state relations, the constitutional balance over war and peace, grassroots clerical activism, and emerging industrial science. The likely topic is how a transforming nation should organize religious liberty, executive power, and public utility during the French Revolution. The issue opens with
an essay defending absolute freedom of conscience, arguing that any state-backed “national” cult violates equality and true religion, urging civil, not clerical, control of registers and education, and warning against allowing priests to re-form a powerful corporate body even if publicly salaried. A long political analysis then examines the decree on delegating the right of peace and war, detailing the shared roles of legislature and king, the risks of popular impulse and corruption, the ambiguities of a suspensive veto, and proposing safeguards such as a renunciation of conquest, stricter ministerial responsibility, a citizen army, and separating the monarch from military command to diminish incentives for war. A provincial letter records curés in Civray planning a public denunciation of writings seen as hostile to religion while professing adherence to the Assembly’s decrees, illustrating local tensions. The closing technical note describes a new manufacture of soda from sea salt—spurred by the end of the salt tax—promising domestic supply, cheap muriatic acid and sal ammoniac, and faster textile bleaching, with ambitions for nationwide factories. (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 Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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