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Pierre-Sylvain Maréchal, (born August 15, 1750, Paris, France—died January 18, 1803, Montrouge), French poet, playwright, and publicist whose plan for a secular calendar, presented in his Almanach des honnêtes gens (1788; “Dictionary of Notables”), was subsequently the basis for the French republican calendar adopted in 1793.

Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) Poet, scholar, atheist, freemason, playwright and journalist, Sylvain Maréchal was active in every phase of the Revolution. One of the chief editors of the revolutionary newspaper, Les Révolutions de Paris, Maréchal's republicanism, militant atheism and egalitarianism placed him at the center of modern debates ...

Pierre Sylvain Maréchal, né le 15 août 1750 à Paris, et mort le 18 janvier 1803 (28 nivôse de l'an XI) à Montrouge, est un écrivain, poète et pamphlétaire français. Militant républicain, passionné par l’égalité sociale, c'est un précurseur de la grève générale et de l’anarchisme [1].

The authorship of the Manifesto is attributed to a radical atheist, journalist, and playwright named Sylvain Maréchal. [2] However, it is commonly suspected that the document had multiple authors. One man that Maréchal worked closely with was the political journalist François-Noël Babeuf (Gracchus Babeuf).

Sylvain Maréchal. Sylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as utopian anarchism. Read more on Wikipedia.

Sylvain Maréchal was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism. His views on a future golden age are occasionally described as utopian anarchism. He was editor of the newspaper Révolutions de Paris.

The work, translated by Sheila Delany, is Maréchal’s sardonic take on the famous thirteenth-century Golden Legend of Jacob Voraigne with assistance from the Bollandist’s Acta Sanctorum to produce an ‘alternative history’ version of many of the Catholic Church’s female saints. Maréchal himself, as described in Delany’s useful ...