In some respects, the French Revolution has always been seen in transnational terms. Recent, paradigm-shifting work on the Caribbean, as well as new scholarship on the ‘age of democratic revolutions’, ‘sister republics’, the Mediterranean basin, and the impact of the French Revolution along the so-called British ‘fringe’, have all sought to replace a Francocentric model of diffusion with multiple histoires croisées. These histories stress the role played by cultural brokers, intermediaries and go-betweens, whose spheres of activity are not circumscribed by the territorial boundaries of pre-established states. Freemasons, merchants, mesmerists, booksellers, abolitionists and diplomats: these are just some of the protagonists who populate the recent histories of the revolutionary period. Within this landscape of cultural brokerage, translators loom large. Yet despite this attention to the role of communication, there prevails an assumption that translation was a type of propaganda disseminating from the French core. When translation has been considered, it has beenmostly examined on a case-by- case basis that often assumes the form of a one-to-one relation (France and Britain, France and Italy, France and Ireland, France and Wales) or focuses on single texts or exceptional individuals.