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Jean-Baptiste Cloots says Anacharsis, baron de Cloots, born with the castle of Gnadenthal ( Valley-of-Grace ), close to Clèves in Germany the June 24th 1755 and guillotine the March 24th 1794 with Paris, is a burning francophile revolutionist and atheistic Prussian militant , then French.

Biography

Born in a rich person Dutch family installed in Germany and heir to a great fortune, scholar, critical of the revealed religions, Cloots makes known itself, as of before the Révolution for its francophile opinions, since in 1786 in a work entitled Vœux of Gallophile , it envisages the fastening of left bank of the the Rhine in France.

At the end of 1789 it settles in France and tries to make act the various governments to spread the revolutionary ideas in Europe. Having changed its name into Anacharsis , he proclaims “Speaker of mankind” and publishes starting from 1792 the universal speaker . He becomes French citizen in August 1792, member of the Convention in September as a deputy of the Oise and approaches a time Roland then of Brissot. He is before all the thinker of the universal République (title of one of its works of February 1792). He will be briefly president of the fine Club of the Jacobins 1793.

At the instigation of Robespierre, which forgives in Cloots neither its party taken of the party of the war nor its Athéisme militant, Convention votes its exclusion, like that of Paine, as a foreign the 6 nivôse of the year I. Decree two days later, amalgamated with the Hébertistes and translated in front of the revolutionary Tribunal, it condemned to dead and carried out the germinal 4 of the year II.

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), which admired in Anacharsis Cloots the spirit and the cosmopolitanism, returned an honor to him late, going until being made call JosephAnacharsis Clootsbeuys .

Works of Cloots

  • Certainty of the evidence of the mahometism or refutation of the examination criticizes apologies for the religion mahométane , London, 1780.
  • Letter on the Jews with an ecclesiastic of my friends , Berlin, 1782.
  • the Koran of the princes , Saint-Pétersbourg, 1783.
  • Wishes of a gallophile , 1786.
  • Motion , 1790.
  • Address of a Prussian to an English Burke , 1790.
  • Anacharsis in Paris , 1791.
  • Correspondence with the Knight of Éon , 1791.
  • the Speaker of mankind or dispatch of the Cloots Prussian to the Prussian Hertzberg , 1791.
  • constitutional Base of the republic of mankind , 1793.

References

  • François Labbé, Anacharsis Cloots, the francophile Prussian , Paris, Harmattan, 1999
  • Roland Mortar, Anacharsis Cloots or struck down Utopia , Paris, Stock, 1995

External bond

  • Project of address to the Savoyards by Anacharsis Cloots.

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