Who wrote The Rights of Man - and The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.

Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain.

His The American Crisis (1776–83) was a prorevolutionary pamphlet series.

Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain."

Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution.

He wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics.

His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel.

In 1792, despite not being able to speak French, he was elected to the French National Convention.

The Girondists regarded him as an ally.

Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy.

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