Purpose
The second essay in intended to build on your skill at interpreting historical texts in context. To that end, your task for the second essay is to analyze one of the speeches delivered at the trial of Louis XVI in the fall of 1793. Your paper should do two things. First, it should analyze your speakers arguments, identifying their fundamental assumptions, describing the arguments your speaker makes on that basis, and showing how your speakers conclusions flow from his assumptions and arguments. Second, your paper should define your speaker’s broader position — whether he best described is a royalist, a constitutional monarchist, a moderate republican, or a radical republican. If you have a better label than one of these, feel free to make a case for why it describes your speaker’s position best.
Task
First, youll need to pick one of the following speakers to write about:
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Thomas Paine
Maximilien Robespierre
Nicolas de Condorcet
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
Then, analyze the viewpoint of a single speaker in the trial of Louis XVI and describe that speaker’s arguments within the spectrum of political opinion that existed in the last year of the French monarchy. If your speaker gave more than one speech, be sure to consult all of the speeches he gave. Your primary sources for your paper are the speeches translated and published in Michael Walzer, ed., Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI (Columbia University Press, 1992), which also contains information on each of the speakers. You are also welcome to use Backman, Cultures of the West, as a secondary source for your paper.
If you wish to consult outside sources for this paper, you are welcome to do so, provided that they are reputable and that you cite your sources. If you have access to the university library, you’ll find that its holdings contains biographies of all of them. You may also use sources found through the Library’s many databases, such as JSTOR. The advantage of JSTOR is that it contains articles published in academic journals, most of which are vetted by peer review.
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