The Principal Speeches Of The Statesmen

Excerpt from The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution, 1789-1795, Vol. 1: Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Gensonné, Guadet, Louvet, CambonI ought to acknowledge my obligations to many kindly helpers, who have encouraged me in the somewhat laborious task of editing these speeches, but I must content myself with mentioning the names of M. Charles de Lomenie, worthy son of a worthy sire and his successor in that great work Les M irabeau, who has been kind enough to answer many minute queries of mine on the text of Mirabeau's speeches; and of Dr. Robinet, the learned authority on Danton, who lent me his copy of the rare brochure, con taining Robespierre's Notes for saint-just, which I have printed in an Appendix.I have adopted the English use of capital letters and of punctuation; my texts, especially those of Barere, justified this procedure, and I remembered that I was editing for English students chiey, though I have been assured by several distinguished French workers on the period that the present collection contains so many reports and speeches never reprinted that it may be of use to them also. The notes I have kept as short as possible. In my biographies I have made frequent use of M. Jules Guirey's Les Cow rentionncls, in which for the first time a. Real canon for the spelling of the names of the deputies of the Convention, after examination of their own signatures, has been laid down.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.