Regicide and Revolution

Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI

By: Michael Walzer (Editor), Marian Rothstein (Translator)

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Paperback | 25 March 1993 | Edition Number 1

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Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.

Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law.

New to this edition is an appendix containing "Revolutionary Justice," Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution."

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A very provocative essay, fecund with insights into the enduring problems of citizenship, servitude, political responsibility and legislative statesmanship." The New Republic

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Preface to the Morningside Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Translator's Preface
Regicide and Revolution
Two Kinds of Regicide	p. 1
The Old Regime	p. 8
The King and the Law	p. 35
The Revolutionary Argument	p. 47
A Defense of the Trial and Execution of Louis XVI	p. 69
The Speeches
Maihle: 7 November 1792	p. 93
Morisson: 13 November 1792	p. 110
Saint-Just: 13 November 1792	p. 120
Paine: 21 November 1792	p. 127
Robespierre: 3 December 1792	p. 130
Condorcet: 3 December 1792	p. 139
Marat: 3 December 1792	p. 158
Saint-Just: 27 December 1792	p. 162
Robespierre: 28 December 1792	p. 178
Vergniaud: 31 December 1792	p. 194
Paine: 7 January 1793	p. 208
App. 1. Revolutionary justice	p. 217
App. 2. The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution	p. 237
App. 3. Excerpts from the Constitution of 1791	p. 253
Index of Names	p. 255
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