This article addresses Paine’s participation in the French Revolution, which has been largely either overlooked or caricatured by most scholars. It examines why the speeches he delivered and the writings he published in France during the various stages of the shift from monarchy to republic are significant and why they should not be merely considered as “a nice footnote to the politics of the Gironde” as Michael Walzer stated. My contention is that Paine’s contribution to the debates on republican institutions and on republican questions at key moments of the French Revolution after 1792 needs to be reappraised and is not marginal even if it has been marginalized. Paine’s viewpoint was seen as important by major agents of the Revolution either because it confirmed their own positions or because it contradicted them, which meant they had to defend these positions, as was the case in 1795 during the debate on the post-Thermidorian Constitution. Paine’s authority was used and exploited by his French political allies as well as by his French opponents. Paine’s republicanism is part of the history of the French Revolution and should be part of its historiography.

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托马斯·潘恩的共和主义与法国大革命

这篇文章讨论了潘恩参与法国大革命，这在很大程度上被大多数学者忽视或讽刺。它探讨了为什么他在从君主制到共和制转变的各个阶段在法国发表的演讲和发表的著作具有重要意义，以及为什么它们不应该像迈克尔·沃尔泽那样仅仅被视为“吉伦特政治的一个很好的脚注”说。我的论点是，潘恩在 1792 年后法国大革命的关键时刻对共和制度和共和问题的辩论所做的贡献需要重新评估，即使被边缘化也不是边缘。潘恩的观点被革命的主要代理人视为重要的，要么因为它证实了他们自己的立场，要么因为它与他们相矛盾，这意味着他们必须捍卫这些立场，就像 1795 年关于后热月宪法的辩论那样。潘恩的权威被他的法国政治盟友以及他的法国对手利用和利用。潘恩的共和主义是法国大革命历史的一部分，应该成为其史学的一部分。