2025/015: A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians — H G Parry

2025/015: A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians — H G Parry

The National Assembly of Magicians had risen up, exactly as Robespierre had hoped. They had issued a proclamation declaring it the right of all citizens to be free to practice their own magic: a Declaration of the Rights of Magicians. Within a day, the Temple Church in Paris had been stormed... [p. 179]

Having enjoyed Parry's more recent The Scholar and the Last Fairy Door, I bought A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians when it was on offer: I love it, and am currently reading the second book in the duology, A Radical Act of Free Magic -- which means I don't yet know how the overall arc resolves.

Set mostly between 1783 and 1794, this is a novel about an Age of Enlightenment complicated by magic.( Read more... )