 Le Républicain, edited by the founding members of the Society of the same name (Condorcet, Brissot, Paine, Duchatelet, Dumont, and Sophie de Grouchy) lasted for four issues in the spring/summer 1791. Grouchy seems to have been quite involved in the production of the journal. In the first issue, she translated two pieces by Thomas Paine (one of which is signed Duchastellet, despite having been written by Paine). The third piece in that first issue is signed “La Vérité” (Truth) which featured as a signature on Grouchy’s stationary. Stylistically, it appears to have been a collaboration between Grouchy and Condorcet. Its argument is a justification of the revolution to foreigners, an explanation of how the republican principles it embodied contribute to freeing the people of France and how they will, at the right time, do the same for other countries. The main piece of the second issue is the first half of a long paper discussing a letter written by Louis XVI to the people of France before his attempted escape. It offers a republican analysis of the pitfalls of monarchy, even when the monarch in question is not a tyrant. The article was first drafted by Dumont, but he later withdrew it and it was significantly rewritten using arguments, phrases and style that can be found in the Letters on Sympathy. The third issue contains the end of that article, another letter by Paine, translated by Grouchy, and a short piece entitled “Letter from a Young Mechanic” which is unsigned but attributed to Grouchy in which the fictional mechanical inventor who is a student of Vaucanson proposes that the royal family be replaced by a set of automata. Even though such machines are expensive, it says, they will cost a fraction of what the French people are spending on their actual king. And what’s more, the mechanical king, far from being a tyrant, will raise its pen and sign everything its government wants it to! Jacques Vaucanson, the putative teacher of the fictional author was a famous inventor, and one whose inventions Condorcet had praised in his works as an example of the sort of technical activity that could be just as inspirational as theories (Condorcet, Oeuvres, 413–437, and Belhoste 1994: 127).