The spirit of the French Constitution, or The almanach of goodman Gerard, for the year 1792, : being the third year of the æra of liberty; a work crowned by the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, held at the Jacobins', Paris; /
Collot d'Herbois, Jean-Marie,1750-1796.
Oswald, John,-1793.
[London] : Sold by Ridgway Bookseller London and at the printing office of the Social circle, Paris.,
1791.
Translation of Almanach du père Gérard pour l'année 1792.
Second numbered sequence = Oswald's 'Triumph of freedom! An ode, to commemorate the anniversary of the French Revolution. By John Oswald, member of the Club des Jacobins'.
Edinburgh born atheist and vegetarian John Oswald had served in the army before becoming a Grub Street journalist and pamphleteer. By May 1790 he was resident in Paris. He watched the debates in the national assembly, where he presented "Ode to the triumph of freedom" on 4 September 1790. He met Thomas Cooper, Joel Barlow, Thomas Christie, Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Brissot, Desmoulins, the Rolands, and Henry  Redhead Yorke, with whom he argued between 1792 and 1793. Oswald was co-editor of a monthly journal, Chronique du Mois (1791-93). He joined the revolutionary armies in 1792, commanding a batallian of pikemen, and died at Thouars in the battle of La Vendée on 14 September 1793.
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