Secret History of the French Revolution from the Convocation of the Notables in 1787 to the First of November 1796 (Volume 2); Tr. from the French (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1797 Excerpt: ... BOOK XXIX. New Tirrorists or Assassins.--The Societies of Jesus and of the Sun.--Green Cravats and black Collars.--Disturbances on account of the two Songs or Hymns, the Marseillois Hymn and le Reveil du Peuple.--The new Calendar. Change proposed in it by the Author of this History.--The new Constitution.--Sketch of the Labours of the Convention in the Formation of it.--View of the public Mind, of the actual Situation of France, of the Decrees relative to the Two-thirds, and of the Arts and Sciences.---' Measures of public Safety proposed by the Author.--General Notion of the principal Objects of a Legislator's Attention.--Events of the $th and 14.th Vendemiaire (October 4 and Reflections on our Revolution.--The latter Decrees of the Convention.--Plan and State of the Finances.--Digression on what has been called the Revolution of Brabant.--A general Amnesty decreed by the Convention.--Exceptions to this Amnesty.--The Convention declares that its Session is terminated, and forms itfetf an R 2 electoral electoral Body, under the Presidency of the oldest of its Members. By what fatal'destiny is it that the vessel of the revolution, already assailed on all sides, is incessantly exposed to fresh tempests? It would appear that after the event of Germinal and Prairial, (March, April, and May, ) after disarming the Faubourg St. Antoine, so prone to error, and the ancient terrorists; after the arrest of the greater number of the most criminal deputies; in short, at the moment when the scaffolds of terror were overthrown, when.the dictatorial bastilles and the den of the Jacobins were shut, the historian of the revolution would be no longer condemned to lead his reader from storm to storm, from plot to plot; especially after the convention had decreed the trials of ...