Saint-Just's Writings

This page contains scans of Saint-Just's handwriting, as well as information on where you can find texts and translations of his writings.

Handwriting Scans

Letter from Saint-Just to Daubigny from the 1936 edition of D. Centore-Bineau's biography
"The Saverne letter of first Brumaire" by Le Bas and Saint-Just from the 1935 edition of Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre by Curtis
A text Saint-Just wrote as a teenager from an edition of Ollivier's biography, provided by Anne
Saint-Just's first letter to Robespierre, provided by Anne
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Pages from the Original Edition of Organt

Provided by Grishnak.

Cover
Argument
Interior page

Texts from Curtis

The following texts were typed by me from Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre by Curtis.

Speech to the Assembly of Chauny
Letter to Camille Desmoulins
First Letter to Robespierre

Works Online

List of Saint-Just's Works on Poésie Française ~ contains Saint-Just's poems "Homme est un mot..." ("Man Is a Word...") and "Le coeur de l'homme est l'énigme du Sphinx" ("The Heart of Man Is the Mystery of the Sphinx") in French.

Discours de Saint-Just ~ fourteen of Saint-Just's speeches in French, on Philippe Royet's Revolution site.

First Part of "l'Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France" ~ French, on Royet's site.

Les arrêtés en mission ~ announcements of Saint-Just and LeBas in French, on Royet's site.

Hanover Historical Texts Project ~ Excerpts from Saint-Just's Republican Institutes, in English.

Report on the Incarcerated ~ English

Letter to the Assembly ~ English

Works in Books

Oeuvres Complètes
by Saint-Just, ed. Anne Kupiec and Miguel Abensour
Contains all of Saint-Just's works, in French.
Available on Alapage.com.

The Old Regime and the French Revolution
edited by Keith Michael Baker
Contains most of Saint-Just's speeches on the king's execution, and his report on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety, in English.
Available on Amazon.com.

Saint-Just
by J.B. Morton
Third appendix consists of Saint-Just's last speech, in English.
Available on ABE Books.

Regicide and Revolution
by Michael Walzer
Contains the full text of both of Saint-Just's speeches on the king's execution, in English.
Available on Amazon.com.