With Paine's Speech at the French Convention, July 7, 1795. Paris. At the English Press. (1795). pp. 32. 8vo. Restitched into a modern paper wrapper. Foxed. Paine's Speech is pp 33 - 40. 8vo. Also restitched into a modern wrapper, each leaf repaired on tissue paper and foxed. The two parts being one publication. ESTC T5826. ODNB. "Paine (was) one of seventeen foreigners accorded honorary French citizenship in August 1792, and four of the departmental electoral assemblies which met at the beginning of September had elected him as deputy to the new National Convention." He was later imprisoned and released. "Although Paine played little role in the remaining days of the convention he did adapt a pamphlet written two years earlier in support of his case for eliminating the property qualification for voting from the new constitution. He attended the convention for the first time since his imprisonment in June to have his speech read to his fellow deputies. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government (1795) is essentially an epitome of his case in Rights of Man and provides an extremely clear and uncluttered statement of his mature views on government. The case for universal manhood suffrage was not, however, obvious to a convention which had been driven by the fury of the Parisian mob over much of the preceding two years, and the new constitution survived Paine's prose to be inaugurated in October 1795. Paine was not elected to it and his official role in France now ended."

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