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Horace Mann Conaway

1860–1922

Best known for a close study of the French Revolution, this American scholar explored how the Declaration of the Rights of Man, constitutional change, and the fall of monarchy shaped the First French Republic. His surviving work reflects a careful, academic approach to big political ideas and turning points in history.

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The first French Republic : A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792

The first French Republic : A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792

by Horace Mann Conaway

About the author

Horace Mann Conaway (1860–1922) was an American writer and historian remembered for The First French Republic, published in 1902. The book was submitted as part of his Ph.D. work in the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University, where he was also described as a sometime fellow in European history.

His best-known book examines the origins of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the making of France’s first written constitution, and the move toward republican government in 1792. Rather than telling the Revolution only as a sequence of dramatic events, he focused on how political ideas developed and took institutional form.

Available records for his life are limited, but cemetery and library catalog sources agree that he was born in 1860 and died in 1922. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included here.