Fragments sur les institutions républicaines

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Fragments sur les institutions républicaines was a work by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, a prominent figure during the French Revolution. Written in 1794, this text outlined Saint-Just's radical proposals for a new society, laying the theoretical groundwork for a communal and egalitarian system.1

Saint-Just, known as an ideologue of the Revolution and a zealous advocate of the Reign of Terror, envisioned a society based on strict principles of justice and equality. His ideas were more radical than the constitutions he helped to draft, reflecting his belief that the Revolution should fundamentally reshape society. The work was never published during his lifetime, as he was arrested and guillotined in the Thermidorian Reaction.1

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…the same period, Saint-Just drafted Fragments sur les institutions républicaines, proposals far more radical than the constitutions he had helped to frame; this work laid the theoretical groundwork for a communal and egalitarian society. Sent on mission to the army in Belgium, he contributed to the victory of Fleurus on…
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