Talk:Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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I am fairly certain that "severly" in Article 9 is a typo, but, as I don't speak French, I'm not 100% sure what it should be. (severely, severally (??)).
Anybody?
Article 9 Every man is supposed innocent until having been declared guilty; {but,} if it be considered essential to arrest, any action, which is not necessary to secure the person, must be severly repressed at law.
Randy Kramer
- Clearly, "Severely" -- Jmabel 21:07, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sieyes?
A recent edit claimed that Emmanuel J. Sieyes rather than the Marquis de Lafayette wrote the Declaration. I'm pretty confident that this was simply wrong, and have restored the attribution to Lafayette. I don't have an absolutely authoritative search, but a quick web search turned up dozens, probably hundreds, of sites attributing it to Lafayette and none to the Abbè Sieyes. It's going to take one heck of a citation to convince me otherwise. Sieyes, in fact, was responsible for the constitution that established the Consulate, the first Republican constitution to exclude the Declaration. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:55, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
