The Abbe Raynal and British Humanitarianism

TLDR: A thorough study of Raynal was undertaken by a student of French literature, Anatole Feugere, the results of whose research first appeared in a series of scattered articles published from 1909 to 1915 and then in a book published in 1922.

Abstract: HUMANITARIANISM I N SPITE of the fact that the French Revolution and its background have been so intensively studied by historical scholars, the importance of one figure of the time, the Abbe Raynal, has been relatively neglected. Many writers have devoted passing attention to Raynal, and a few have appreciated something of his importance ;1 but until recent years there was no adequate study of his life and influence, and his full importance was not generally recognized. Even yet he has hardly been given his proper place, though the want of an adequate monograph has now been supplied. Early in the present century a thorough study of Raynal was undertaken by a student of French literature, Anatole Feugere, the results of whose research first appeared in a series of scattered articles published from 1909 to 1915 and then in a book published in 1922.2 In its final form Feugere's work is noteworthy, not only for its collection into one synthesis of the many scraps of information about Raynal which have become available in printed sources during the last century, but for the use made by Feugere of unpublished correspondence and manuscripts of the Abbe himself. On the basis of these published and unnuhblishe] materials. Feiiore has siieeeedetd in making a X I ci C-7