Pierre Sylvain Maréchal Papers

Period 1771-1804 (1845-1883)
Total size   0.35 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Paris 1750, died in Montrouge, France 1803; journalist, militant republican, Babouvist, precursor of anarchism; became an atheist in the 1770s; adhered to the freemasonry in 1773; lost his job at the library of the Quatre-Nations on account of his atheism; developed a new revolutionary calendar, for which he was imprisoned for three months; advocated the general strike; founded the journal Le Tonneau de Diogène ou les Révolutions du Clergé in 1790; contributed to the periodical Révolutions de Paris of Louis-Marie Prudhomme; advocated a communist society without a state; his publications include the influential Dictionnaire des athées anciens et modernes in 1799.

Content

Documents concerning P. Sylvain Maréchal and Jacques Lablée, probably collected by M. Chevalier, consisting of: two fragments (autographs) by Sylvain Maréchal; manuscripts from Jacques Lablée, including transcriptions of poems written by Sylvain Maréchal; handwritten copies of books (parts of), articles and poems; copies of published and unpublished manuscripts by Maréchal; biographical and bibliographical notes; correspondence between different persons 1865-1883, including letters to M. Chevalier; printed material.

Processing information

Inventory by Benjamin Guichard in 2011