Louis Sebastien Mercier, 'Comment fonder la morale du peuple? Traite d'education pour l'avenement d'une societe nouvelle'

How might Republican France create the homme nouveau, or the ideal citizen, upon which the nascent republic placed its hopes? This is the question that Louis Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814) asks in this 1801 treatise on moral education, which has remained unedited until the present day.