Table of Contents

Essay 1 / Grégoire and the Anthropology of Emancipation.- Essay 2 / The Abbé Grégoire’s Program for the Jews: Social Reform and Spiritual Project.- Essay 3 / The Abbé Grégoire and the Société des Amis des Noirs.- Essay 4 / Exporting the Revolution: Grégoire, Haiti and the Colonial Laboratory, 1815-1827.- Essay 5 / The Abbé Grégoire and the Quest for a Catholic Republic.- Essay 6 / Tearing Down the Tower of Babel: Grégoire and French Multilingualism.- Essay 7 / The Paradoxes of Vandalism: Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian Discourse on Historical Monuments.- Essay 8 / Grégoire’s American Involvements.- Essay 9 / Grégoire as Autobiographer.- Afterword / Discovering the Abbé Grégoire.

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`Altogether this is an important and useful collection which underlines how unjustly neglected this fascinating figure has been until recently.'
William Doyle, University of Bristol in English Historical Review, 117:473 (2002)
`[...]the Abbé Grégoire and His World will become required reading for all those who seek to understand the Revolution, its protagonists, and our indebtedness to both.'
Frances Malino, Wellesley College in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40:2 (2002)