''Buonarroti's History of Babeuf's Conspiracy for Equality'' (''Histoire de la Conspiration pour l'Égalité dite de Babeuf'') is a

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about

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's failed

Conspiracy of the Equals The Conspiracy of the Equals (french: Conjuration des Égaux) of May 1796 was a failed coup d'Etat during the French Revolution. It was led by François-Noël Babeuf, who wanted to overthrow the Directory and replace it with an egalitarian and p ...

penned in 1828 by

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writer and conspirator

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, himself a member of Babeuf's inner circle. The book was immensely successful not only in France but abroad as well. Chartist leader

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translated the work into English in 1836 and over fifty thousand copies of the translated work were subsequently sold in the

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. Both Buonarroti and O'Brien took considerable risk when publishing the work, as evidenced by their use of acronyms to identify surviving members of the Conspiracy in their correspondence with one another.

References

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