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Sylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as utopian anarchism .
Pierre Sylvain Maréchal, né le 15 août 1750 à Paris, et mort le 18 janvier 1803 ( 28 nivôse de l' an XI) à Montrouge, est un écrivain, poète et pamphlétaire français. Militant républicain, passionné par l’égalité sociale, c'est un précurseur de la grève générale et de l’ anarchisme 2 . Sous le Directoire, il participe avec ...
Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal was a French poet, playwright, and publicist whose plan for a secular calendar, presented in his Almanach des honnêtes gens (1788; “Dictionary of Notables”), was subsequently the basis for the French republican calendar adopted in 1793.
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Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) by Sanja Perovic, Lecturer in French, King's College London. Poet, scholar, atheist, freemason, playwright and journalist, Sylvain Maréchal was active in every phase of the Revolution. One of the chief editors of the revolutionary newspaper, Les Révolutions de Paris, Maréchal's republicanism, militant atheism ...
The authorship of the Manifesto is attributed to a radical atheist, journalist, and playwright named Sylvain Maréchal. However, it is commonly suspected that the document had multiple authors. One man that Maréchal worked closely with was the political journalist François-Noël Babeuf (Gracchus Babeuf).
Jul 18, 2017 · The author, Sylvain Maréchal, is described as a forgotten writer of the Revolutionary period. Historically overshadowed by his idols, such as Voltaire and Rousseau whose thought he draws from heavily in his promulgation of an agrarian utopia dependent on nature, virtue, and reason, Maréchal himself, as the introduction details, is an interesting case.
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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.
