[Footnote 1418: Eugène Hatin, "Histoire de la Presse," vol. V. p. 113. "Le Patriote français" by Brissot, July 28, 1789.--"L'Ami du Peuple," by Marat, September 12, 1789.--"Annales patriotiques et littéraires," by Carra and Mercier, October 5, 1789,--"Les Révolutions de Paris," chief editor Loustalot, July 17th, 1789.--"Le Tribun du peuple," letters by (middle of 1789).--"Révolutions de France et de Brabant," by C. Desmoulins, November 28, 1789; his "France libre" (I believe of the month of August, and his "Discours de la Lanterne" of the month of September).--"The Moniteur" does not make its appearance until November 24, 1789. In the seventy numbers which follow, up to February 3, 1790, the debates of the Assembly were afterwards written out, amplified, and put in a dramatic form. All numbers anterior to February 3, 1790, are the result of a compilation executed in the year IV. The narrative part during the first six months of the Revolution is of no value. The report of the sittings of the Assembly is more exact, but should be revised sitting by sitting and discourse by discourse for a detailed history of the National Assembly. The principal authorities which are really contemporary are, "Le Mercure de France," "Le Journal de Paris," "Le point de Jour" by Barrère, the "Courrier de Versailles," by Gorsas, the "Courrier de Provence" by Mirabeau, the "Journal des Débats et Décrets," the official reports of the National assembly, the "Bulletin de l'Asemblée Nationale," by Marat, besides the newspapers above cited for the period following the 14th of July, and the speeches, which are printed separately.] [Footnote 1419: C. Desmoulins, letters of September 20th and of subsequent dates. (He quote, a passage from Lucan in the sense indicated).--Brissot, "Mémoires," passim.--Biography of Danton by Robinet. (See the testimony of Madame Roland and of Rousselin de Saint-Albin.)] [Footnote 1420: "Discours de la Lanterne." See the epigraph of the engraving.] [Footnote 1421: Buchez and Roux; III. 55; article of Marat, October lst. "Sweep all the suspected men out of the Hôtel-de-Ville. . . . . Reduce the deputies of the communes to fifty; do not let them remain in office more than a month or six weeks, and compel them to transact business only in public."--And II. 412, another article by Marat.--Ibid. III. 21. An article by Loustalot.--C. Desmoulins, "Discours de la Lanterne," passim.--Bailly, II. 326.] [Footnote 1422: Mounier, "Des causes qui ont empêche les Français d'être libre," I. 59.--Lally-Tollendal, second letter, 104.--Bailly, II. 203.] [Footnote 1423: De Bouillé, 207.--Lally-Tollendal, ibid, 141, 146.--Mounier, ibid., 41, 60.]