The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in Akoma Ntoso

The French Declaration of August 26, 1789, in the original French with an English translation, marked up in Akoma Ntoso, the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents. The 17 articles are set on twin arched tablets, as in the prints of the period.

How it was made

The XML was generated by Claude for Grant Vergottini from the French text published by the Présidence de la République and the English translation published by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Declaration remains part of French constitutional law. The page is a modern rendering, not a copy of any original.

Files

• rights-of-man-and-citizen.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• rights-of-man-and-citizen.css: the stylesheet that renders it