“L'homme religieux réformateur” The First French Translation of Emerson in Adam Mickiewicz's Revolutionary TRIBUNE DES PEUPLES

Abstract

‘Man the Reformer’ was the first of Emerson's works to be published in French translation. It appeared in a radical newspaper edited by the celebrated Polish author Adam Mickiewicz in Paris in 1849. This article is the first to examine this unique work, setting it in the context the revolutionary events of 1848-49.