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Events on Sunday 13 March 1791 1
1791Rights of Man, Part One, publishedThomas Paine defends the French Revolution against Edmund BurkeThomas Paine published the first part of "Rights of Man" on 13 March 1791, rebutting Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution. The pamphlet argued for popular sovereignty and natural rights and sold widely in Britain, Ireland, and America. It later led to Paine being tried in absentia for seditious libel.