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The French Revolution, Volume 1. ^M The Origins of Contemporary
France, Volume 2^M ^M by Hippolyte A. Taine^M

CONTENTS:
ANARCHY
PREFACE
BOOK FIRST. Spontaneous Anarchy.
CHAPTER I
. The Beginnings of Anarchy
CHAPTER II
. Paris up to the 14th of July
CHAPTER III
. Anarchy from July 14th to October 6th, 1789
CHAPTER IV
. PARIS
BOOK SECOND. The constituent Assembly, and the Result of its
Labors
CHAPTER I
. The Constituent Assembly
CHAPTER II
. The Damage
CHAPTER III
. The Constructions - The Constitution of 1791.

BOOK THIRD. The Application of the Constitution
CHAPTER I
. The Federations
CHAPTER II
. Sovereignty of Unrestrained Passions
CHAPTER III
. Development of the ruling Passion

PREFACE
This second part of "Les Origines de la France Contemporaine" will
consist of two volumes. - Popular insurrections and the laws of the
Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in France; this
forms the subject of the present volume. - A party arises around an
extreme doctrine, grabs control of the government, and rules in
conformity with its doctrine. This will form the subject of the second
volume.
A third volume would be required to criticize and evaluate the source
material. I lack the necessary space: I merely state the rule that I have
observed. The trustworthiest testimony will always be that of an
eyewitness, especially
* When this witness is an honorable, attentive, and intelligent man,
* When he is writing on the spot, at the moment, and under the dictate
of the facts themselves,
* When it is obvious that his sole object is to preserve or furnish
information,
* When his work instead of a piece of polemics planned for the needs
of a cause, or a passage of eloquence arranged for popular effect is a
legal deposition, a secret report, a confidential dispatch, a private letter,
or a personal memento.
The nearer a document approaches this type, the more it merits
confidence, and supplies superior material. - I have found many of this
kind in the national archives, principally in the manuscript
correspondence of ministers, intendants, sub-delegates, magistrates,
and other functionaries; of military commanders, officers in the army,
and gendarmerie; of royal commissioners, and of the Assembly; of
administrators of departments, districts, and municipalities, besides

persons in private life who address the King, the National Assembly, or
the ministry. Among these are men of every rank, profession, education,
and party. They are distributed