Produced by Svend Rom THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 2 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 1. by Hippolyte A. Taine 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.