The French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

The French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

First, therefore, it is necessary to set down, clearly without modern accretion, that political theory which was a sort of religious creed, supplying the motive force of the whole business; of the new Civil Code as Of the massacres; Of the panics and capitulations as of the victories of the successful trans formation of society as Of the conspicuous failures in detail which still menace the achievement of the Revolution.