Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº I by Condorcet and Grouvelle
Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº I by Condorcet and Grouvelle is a political periodical from the late 18th century. It launches a reformist journal devoted to the “social art” of organizing a free constitution and public happiness, with essays, national and foreign correspondence, parliamentary analysis, and literary miscellany; its likely topic is how to design and apply principles of liberty in a modern nation. This first issue opens with
a prospectus defining the “social art” as unifying agriculture, commerce, government, finance, education, and law to advance human well-being, and outlining five sections plus a weekly publishing plan. It then prints an address to the National Assembly urging repeal of property- and tax-based eligibility rules, arguing they betray equality, are arbitrary and manipulable, needlessly tie rights to fiscal mechanics, and are unnecessary because well-ordered elections will elevate merit. A long analysis follows on who should wield the power of war and peace, weighing risks of royal prerogative (despotism, ministerial intrigue) against legislative control (slowness, lack of secrecy, factionalism, corruption), and concluding that exclusive solutions are unsound, recommending a carefully shared, case-defined mechanism. The closing “Variétés” offers a satirical letter exposing how reactionary pamphleteers’ attacks are courted as a badge of civic virtue, skewering the marketplace of slander in revolutionary politics. (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 |
| Title | Journal de la société de 1789 - Nº I |
| 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. | 77952 |
| Release Date | Feb 16, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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