Pierre Paganel

I received through Mr. Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. That it's sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. The friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested not to give umbrage to it's enemies. ... The perusal of this work has given me new views of the causes of failure in a revolution of which I was a witness in it's early part, & then augured well of it. ... The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason & information....

-- Thomas Jefferson to Paganel, 1811… (plus d'informations)