The French Revolution

Front Matter....Pages iii-xvi
November 19, 1787: Chrétien François de Lamoignon on Principles of the French Monarchy....Pages 1-3
April 17, 1788: Louis XVI to a Deputation from the Parlement of Paris....Pages 3-4
May 4, 1788: Repeated Remonstrances of the Parlement of Paris in Response to the King’s Statement of April 17....Pages 5-10
December 12, 1788: Memoir of the Princes....Pages 10-15
January, 1789: Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?....Pages 16-37
February, 1789: Mounier on the Estates General....Pages 37-44
March 1, 1789: Parish Cahiers of Écommoy and Mansigné....Pages 45-51
March 14, 1789: Cahier of the Nobility of Crépy....Pages 51-56
March 26, 1789: Cahier of the Clergy of Troyes....Pages 56-63
June 16, 1789: Barentin’s Memorandum on the Crisis in the Estates General....Pages 64-69
June 22, 1789: Montmorin’s Testimony in Support of Necker....Pages 69-72
June 23, 1789: Louis XVI at the Royal Session of the Estates General....Pages 72-80
August 2, 1789: Rivarol on the Meaning of July 14....Pages 80-85
August 4, 1789: Night Session of the National Assembly....Pages 86-94
August 20–26, 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen....Pages 94-97
September 1, 1789: Mirabeau on Royal Authority....Pages 97-107
September 4, 1789: Abbé Grégoire on the Royal Veto and the Legislature of Two Chambers....Pages 107-112
October 10, 1789: Talleyrand on Ecclesiastical Property....Pages 113-119
October 15, 1789: Mirabeau, a Secret Memoir....Pages 120-130
January 28, 1790: A Petition to the National Assembly from Leaders of Jewish Communities....Pages 130-135
May 29, 30, 1790: Debate on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy....Pages 136-142
April, 1791: Robespierre on the Suffrage....Pages 143-155
June 14, 1791: Chapelier on Organizations of Workers....Pages 155-158
June 20, 1791: Louis XVI on the Subject of His Flight....Pages 158-168
August 11, 1791: Barnave on Representative Government and the Social Order....Pages 168-176
September 8, 1791: Marie Antoinette on Ending the Revolution....Pages 176-185
January 11, 1792: Robespierre on War....Pages 186-196
January 20, 1792: Brissot on War....Pages 196-207
April 27, 1792: Malouet, a Conservative View of the Revolution....Pages 207-215
July 7, 1792: Marat, a Radical View of the Revolution....Pages 215-221
November 19, 1792: Petitioners vs. Roland on Price-Fixing....Pages 222-228
December 12, 1792: An Attack on the Slave Trade....Pages 228-236
February 15, 1793: Condorcet Presents His Constitution to the Convention....Pages 236-250
March 10, 1793: Danton on Crisis Measures....Pages 250-255
May 10, 1793: Robespierre on Constitutional Principles....Pages 255-259
June 25, 1793: Roux Before the Convention....Pages 260-263
September 2, 1793: Section des Sans-Culottes, Social Views....Pages 263-266
November 7, 10, 1793: Dechristianizing....Pages 266-271
November, 1793: Père Duchesne, His Plebeian Appeal....Pages 271-276
February 5, 1794 (17 Pluviôse, An II): Robespierre’s Report on the Principles of Political Morality....Pages 276-288
February 26, March 3, 1794: Saint-Just on the Ventôse Decrees....Pages 288-298
May 7, 1794 (18 Floréal, An II): Robespierre’s Report on Religious and Moral Ideas and Republican Principles....Pages 299-312
June 23, 1795: Boissy d’Anglas on a New Constitution....Pages 313-324
July, 1795: Louis XVIII, Declaration of Verona....Pages 324-329
November 30, 1795: Babeuf’s Le Tribun du peuple, No. 35....Pages 329-338
December 6, 1795: Mallet du Pan After Vendémiaire....Pages 339-343
1794, 1795, 1796: Joseph de Maistre on Reason, Monarchy, and Aristocracy....Pages 343-351
September, 1796: Théoanthropophile Manual....Pages 352-357
September 19, 1797: Bonaparte to Talleyrand About Sieyès....Pages 358-360
February or March, 1799: Mme. de Staël on Constitutionalism and Dictatorship....Pages 361-371
Back Matter....Pages 372-399