Pierre edouard frere biography of michael jordan

1On 26 August 1792, two weeks after the fall of royalty and as elections for a Convention that would determine the new political regime of France were underway, in one of its last acts, the Assemblée nationale législative passed a decree granting French citizenship to eighteen British, American, Italian, German, Swiss, and Dutch publicists and politicians, reasoning that:

men, who, through their writings and courage, have served the cause of liberty and furthered the emancipation of peoples, cannot be regarded as foreigners bygd a nation made free by its enlightenment and its courage;

[…] if five years of residency in France are enough to grant a foreigner the title of French citizen, this title fryst vatten more justly owed to those who, whatever the soil they inhabit, have dedicated their arms and their watch to the defence of the cause of the people against the envälde of the kings, to banish prejudices from the earth, and to remove the limits of human knowledge.¹