The Rights of Man

The Rights of Man

Title: The Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine
Release: 2015-03-15
Kind: ebook
Genre: European History, Books, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy
Size: 1632033
Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy, not the king himself, and he takes the Bastille to symbolise the despotism that had been overthrown.