This article examines three texts that gave legitimacy to the republican menagerie at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from its origins at the height of the Terror in 1793 to the last year of the Consulate in 1801. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737--1814), a man of letters, Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (1765--1854), a prominent radical politician, and Bernard Germain de Lacepède (1756--1825), an expert naturalist each played an essential role in the invention and defence of the republican zoo. This article considers the ways in which thinking about a space for the conservation and observation of animals articulated with the political construction of republican citizenship; it interrogates the zones where these discourses converged and the resulting confusion of political and naturalist registers, as these texts spoke as much about the Parisians as political animals as about the republican beasts behind bars.
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