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Roland Mortier : Naigeon as a critic of the declaration ofrights. The proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on 26th August 1789 aroused fierce criticism. Some of it came from the right and the clergy while other, equally severe, critics vere to be found among the heirs of the great 18th- century philosophes. J.A. Naigeon was their mouthpiece when he came out against the reference to the Supreme Being, which he denounced as an intolerable intrusion of the religious sphere into the political. He announced his preference for the project presented by Condorcet, while reaffirming his fidelity to Diderot's materialism. At the same time, he condemned the lukewarm attitude of some philosophers (Montesquieu) and the cowardice of others (D'Alembert).

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