The French Revolution (Vol.1-3). Taine Hippolyte

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СКАЧАТЬ (return) [ "Archives de la Préfecture de Police," minutes of the meeting of the section of Butte des Moulins, October 5, 1789.]

      1408 (return) [ Bailly, II. 224.—Dusaulx, 418, 202, 257, 174, 158. The powder transported was called poudre de traite (transport); the people understood it as poudre de traître (traitor). M. de la Salle was near being killed through the addition of an r. It is he who had taken command of the National Guard on the 13th of July.]

      1409 (return) [ Floquet, VII. 54. There is the same scene at Granville, in Normandy, on the 16th of October. A woman had assassinated her husband, while a soldier who was her lover is her accomplice; the woman was about to be hung and the man broken on the wheel, when the populace shout, "The nation has the right of pardon," upset the scaffold, and save the two assassins.]

      1410 (return) [ Bailly, II. 274 (August 17th).]

      1411 (return) [ Bailly, II, 83, 202, 230, 235, 283, 299.]

      1412 (return) [ Mercure de France, the number for September 26th.—De Goncourt, p. 111.]

      1413 (return) [ Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," I, 58; X. 151.]

      1414 (return) [ De Ferrières, I. 178.—Buchez and Roux, II. 311, 316.—Bai11y, II. 104, 174, 207, 246, 257, 282.]

      1415 (return) [ Mercure de France, September 5th, 1789. Horace Walpole's Letters, September 5, 1789.—M. de Lafayette, "Mémoires," I. 272. During the week following the 14th of July, 6,000 soldiers deserted and went over to the people, besides 400 and 800 Swiss Guards and six battalions of the French Guards, who remain without officers, and do as they please. Vagabonds from the neighboring villages flock in, and there are more than "30,000 strangers and vagrants" in Paris.]

      1416 (return) [ Bailly, II. 282. The crowd of deserters was so great that Lafayette was obliged to place a guard at the barriers to keep them from entering the city. "Without this precaution the whole army would have come in."]

      1417 (return) [ De Ferrières, I. 103.—De Lavalette, I. 39.—Bailly, I. 53 (on the lawyers). "It may be said that the success of the Revolution is due to this class."—Marmontel, II. 243 "Since the first elections of Paris, in 1789, I remarked," he says, "this species of restless intriguing men, contending with each other to be heard, impatient to make themselves prominent. … It is well known what interest this body (the lawyers) had to change Reform into Revolution, the Monarchy into a Republic; the object was to organize for itself a perpetual aristocracy."—Buchez and Roux, II. 358 (article by C. Desmoulins). "In the districts everybody exhausts his lungs and his time in trying to be president, vice-president, secretary or vice-secretary"]

      1418 (return) [ Eugène Hatin, "Histoire de la Presse," vol. V. p. 113. "Le Patriote français" by Brissot, July 28, 1789.—"L'Ami du Peuple," by Marat, September 12, 1789.—"Annales patriotiques et littéraires," by Carra and Mercier, October 5, 1789—"Les Révolutions de Paris," chief editor Loustalot, July 17th, 1789.—"Le Tribun du peuple," letters by (middle of 1789).—"Révolutions de France et de Brabant," by C. Desmoulins, November 28, 1789; his "France libre" (I believe of the month of August, and his "Discours de la Lanterne" of the month of September).—"The Moniteur" does not make its appearance until November 24, 1789. In the seventy numbers which follow, up to February 3, 1790, the debates of the Assembly were afterwards written out, amplified, and put in a dramatic form. All numbers anterior to February 3, 1790, are the result of a compilation executed in the year IV. The narrative part during the first six months of the Revolution is of no value. The report of the sittings of the Assembly is more exact, but should be revised sitting by sitting and discourse by discourse for a detailed history of the National Assembly. The principal authorities which are really contemporary are, "Le Mercure de France," "Le Journal de Paris," "Le point de Jour" by Barrère, the "Courrier de Versailles," by Gorsas, the "Courrier de Provence" by Mirabeau, the "Journal des Débats et Décrets," the official reports of the National assembly, the "Bulletin de l'Asemblée Nationale," by Marat, besides the newspapers above cited for the period following the 14th of July, and the speeches, which are printed separately.]

      1419 (return) [ C. Desmoulins, letters of September 20th and of subsequent dates. (He quote, a passage from Lucan in the sense indicated).—Brissot, "Mémoires," passim.—Biography of Danton by Robinet. (See the testimony of Madame Roland and of Rousselin de Saint-Albin.)]

      1420 (return) [ "Discours de la Lanterne." See the epigraph of the engraving.]

      1421 (return) [ Buchez and Roux; III. 55; article of Marat, October lst. "Sweep all the suspected men out of the Hôtel-de-Ville. … . Reduce the deputies of the communes to fifty; do not let them remain in office more than a month or six weeks, and compel them to transact business only in public."—And II. 412, another article by Marat.—Ibid. III. 21. An article by Loustalot.—C. Desmoulins, "Discours de la Lanterne," passim.—Bailly, II. 326.]

      1422 (return) [ Mounier, "Des causes qui ont empêche les Français d'être libre," I. 59.—Lally-Tollendal, second letter, 104.—Bailly, II. 203.]

      1423 (return) [ De Bouillé, 207.—Lally-Tollendal, ibid, 141, 146.—Mounier, ibid., 41, 60.]

      1424 (return) [ Mercure de France, October 2, 1790 (article of Mallet du Pan: "I saw it"). Criminal proceedings at the Châtelet on the events of October 5th and 6th. Deposition of M. Feydel, a deputy, No. 178.——De Montlosier, i. 259.—Desmoulins (La Lanterne). "Some members of the communes are gradually won over by pensions, by plans for making СКАЧАТЬ