Thomas Paine share with the Montagnards and the popular movement in the French Revolution the same conception of the republic. It is based on the guarantee of the right to exist, based on an idea of freedom defined as equality of personal rights. Instead, the Girondins and Condorcet whose political ideas are yet systematically associated with his, highlight the unlimited freedom of the owner as the basis of society. Thomas Paine allows to reconsider the divisions from which historiography has fixed the meaning of the French Revolution. He reveals the contradictions of the standard narrative of modernity we have inherited.

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托马斯潘恩作为生存权理论家

托马斯·潘恩与山岳派和法国大革命中的民众运动有着相同的共和观。它基于对生存权的保障，基于被定义为个人权利平等的自由理念。相反，其政治思想尚未系统地与他的政治思想联系在一起的吉伦特派和孔多塞，强调了作为社会基础的所有者的无限自由。托马斯·潘恩（Thomas Paine）允许重新考虑史学确定法国大革命意义的分歧。他揭示了我们继承的现代性标准叙事的矛盾。