List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution
In French honorary citizenship is awarded by cities, towns and sometimes federal states. [1] During the French Revolution, France granted honorary French citizenship to those deemed champions of the cause.[2] However, not all were sympathizers with the Revolution. One (Cloots) died on the guillotine.[3]
- Joel Barlow
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Jeremy Bentham
- Robert Burns
- Joachim Heinrich Campe
- Thomas Clarkson
- Anacharsis Cloots
- Cornelius de Pauw
- Alexander Hamilton
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- James Mackintosh
- James Madison
- Thomas Muir
- Thomas Paine
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Joseph Priestley
- Friedrich Schiller
- George Washington
- William Wilberforce
- David Williams
References[]
- ^ "honorary citizenship France". by French Riviera Secrets.com. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ Gordon S. Wood (2009). Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. Oxford University Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780199741090.
- ^ Siegfried Weichlein, "Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism", Unity and Diversity in European Culture C. 1800, ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 96.
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