be correct) was labelled, "The Age of Reason," and given for
translation to Francois Lanthenas in March 1793. It is entered, in
Qudrard (La France Literaire) under the year 1793, but with the title
"L'Age de la Raison" instead of that which it bore in 1794, "Le
Siecle de la Raison." The latter, printed "Au Burcau de l'imprimerie,
rue du Theatre-Francais, No. 4," is said to be by "Thomas Paine,
Citoyen et cultivateur de I'Amerique septentrionale, secretaire du
Congres du departement des affaires etrangeres pendant la guerre
d'Amerique, et auteur des ouvrages intitules: LA SENS COMMUN et LES
DROITS DE L'HOMME."

When the Revolution was advancing to increasing terrors, Paine,
unwilling to participate in the decrees of a Convention whose sole
legal function was to frame a Constitution, retired to an old mansion
and garden in the Faubourg St. Denis, No. 63. Mr. J.G. Alger, whose
researches in personal details connected with the Revolution are
original and useful, recently showed me in the National Archives at
Paris, some papers connected with the trial of Georgeit, Paine's
landlord, by which it appears that the present No. 63 is not, as I
had supposed, the house in which Paine resided. Mr. Alger accompanied
me to the neighborhood, but we were not able to identify the house.
The arrest of Georgeit is mentioned by Paine in his essay on
"Forgetfulness" (Writings, iii., 319). When his trial came on one of
the charges was that he had kept in his house "Paine and other
Englishmen," -- Paine being then in prison, -- but he (Georgeit) was
acquitted of the paltry accusations brought against him by his
Section, the "Faubourg du Nord." This Section took in the whole east
side of the Faubourg St. Denis, whereas the present No. 63 is on the
west side. After Georgeit (or Georger) had been arrested, Paine was
left alone in the large mansion (said by Rickman to have been once