Jean-Paul SARTRE (1905-1980). Autograph manuscript, [On the French Revolution]; on 39pages in-4 of a Diane block with its original cover. Unpublished manuscript for a book on the French Revolution. This is a very thorough, documented and detailed study of the beginnings of the Revolution. A highly interesting text, in which Sartre superimposes a "Sartrean" analysis and interpretation on a close analysis of the speeches and writings of the main figures. For example, on the subject of Human Rights: "This is the moment when the historical movement denies itself by opposing historical law with eternal law. It is the moment when history creates a homeland of law prior to and superior to history. [...] Hence the conquering force of the ideal and the birth of revolutionary imperialism. National particularisms are founded on history and tradition; but the Revolutionaries, victims of the particularisms of institutions and privileges, can only get rid of them by proposing the ideology of the universal and the eternal. As a result, their ideology necessarily brings them into conflict with the formal authorities, because it is naturally adopted by the exploited. In short, the French bourgeoisie could only liberate itself by embracing the universal. Hence the dangers for the bourgeois class: proletarians/socialism negroes/ruin of the colonists Europeans/war". Another development on the theme of "to command is to obey"; discussion of the "Marxist error" regarding praxis and man's need in business and society, etc. Sartre also studies: "the convocation of the Estates General"; the "Lords Program"; "generosity as an institutional relationship between the aristocracy and the third party, between the king and the nation"; "On the Constitution of a Society"; "1789. Task of the Constituent Assembly and the Third Estate. Créer un nouveau Sacré"; "Constitution progressive de l'Assemblée"; study of speeches and writings by Malouet, Luxembourg, Duc de Montmorency, Mallet du Pan, Journal politique national; "Droits de l'homme"; "Commande c'est obéir"; "le Doublement".