Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… a member of the Amis des Noirs’s first society in Paris, Williams had close connections with the members of the British Club ‘The Friends of the Rights of Man, associated in Paris’. The British Club’s membership included English, Irish and American supporters of the Girondists, such as John Hurford Stone and Joel Barlow, who would meet at White’s hotel. On 18 November 1792, at a party organised by the club members to celebrate General Dumouriez’s victory at Jemappes over the Austrian army, a toast was made to Charlotte …
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