Timeline for Were any U.S. founding fathers present at the storming of the Bastille?
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| Feb 26 at 21:53 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn | Interesting the text of Jefferson's original letter is paywalled, since any copyright has surely expired. | |
| Feb 26 at 20:46 | vote | accept | Geremia | ||
| Feb 26 at 16:04 | history | edited | OldPadawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25 at 12:54 | comment | added | OldPadawan | Thanks, I'll check this out. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:38 | comment | added | WS2 | see Eastlake, Lady (ed) Dr Rigby's letters from France in 1789 (London 1880). There is a copy in the Forum Library in Norwich and I assume the British Library. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:35 | comment | added | WS2 | I suppose he could be - I am not sure where your information came from. There could conceivably have been more than one British doctor there! But if you want to know anything about Rigby I have a considerable amount of information on him, having researched radicalism in Norwich in the period. Rigby was a distinguished surgeon of his day and a founder of the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital - also a supporter of a group of young Radical Whigs in the City who published (clandestinely) support for the likes of Paine and some French revolutionary ideas. | |
| Feb 25 at 12:26 | comment | added | OldPadawan | Isn't Mr Rigby the doctor I was mentioning on a comment down the other answer? Do you think it's him? (can't search at the moment) | |
| Feb 25 at 12:23 | comment | added | WS2 | I am aware of at least one party of British radicals who were there and witnessed the storming of the Bastille. They were led by Dr Edward Rigby of Norwich and their experiences are described in his Letters from France published by his daughter Lady Eastlake. They were supporters of Mirabeau and Rigby quotes a conversation he had with the revolutionary Target, who was identified with Mirabeau and those who favoured France becoming a constitutional monarchy on the British pattern. | |
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| Feb 24 at 6:06 | history | answered | OldPadawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |