Thomas Paine, 14e arrondissement

'THOMAS PAINE

CITOYEN DU MONDE

1737 – 1809

ENGLISHMAN BY BIRTH

FRENCH CITIZEN BY DECREE

AMERICAN BY ADOPTION'

This statue of Thomas Paine is in Parc Montsouris at the southern edge.

Thomas Paine at the Angel, Islington: London #36

The Thomas Paine obelisk was unveiled in Angel Square, Islington, in 1991 to commemorate the bicentenary of Paine's book The Rights of Man (1791), which he is said to have written at the (long demolished) Angel Inn near here. The sculptor is Kevin Jordan.

 

 

 

'THESE ARE THE TIMES

THAT TRY MENS SOULS'

 

'MY COUNTRY IS MY WORLD AND

MY RELIGION IS TO DO GOOD'

 

 

'LAY THEN THE AXE TO

THE ROOT AND TEACH

GOVERNMENTS HUMANITY'

 

'IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE

HAPPINESS OF MAN THAT HE IS

MENTALLY FAITHFUL TO HIMSELF'

More in the 6th arrondissement, Paris, France: Literary Île-de-France #43

To the south of the Jardin du Luxembourg, at 3 rue Auguste Compte, is the building where the philosopher Simone Veil lived from 1929 to 1940.

'SIMONE VEIL
PHILOSOPHE

A HABITÉ CETTE MAISON

DE 1929 À 1940.'

To the north of the jardin du Luxembourg is rue de l'Odéon, where at number 12 Sylvia Beach published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922.

'EN 1922,
DANS CETTE MAISON,

MELLE SYLVIA BEACH PUBLIA

"ULYSSES"

DE JAMES JOYCE.'

Next door is another plaque commemorating Thomas Paine living there from 1797 to 1802, underlining the help he gave toward the French Revolution.

'Thomas PAINE

1737—1809

Anglais de naissance

Américain d'adoption

Français par décret

a vécu dans cet immeuble de 1797 à 1802.

Il mit sa passion de la liberté au service de la

Révolution française, fut député à la Convention

et écrivit Les Droits de l'Homme.

"Lorsque les opinions sont libres, la force de la

vérité finit toujours par l'emporter"

Finally — and cheating slightly by moving to the 5th arrondissement — at 37 rue de la Bûcherie is the more recent bookstore 'Shakespeare and Company', a major meeting place for English-speakers (mainly Americans), and probably the biggest cliché I've yet posted up here.