Excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution, Vol. 1 of 2 From fuch publications real information can rarely be derived; if the narrators have afforded means of tracing the progrefs of their own conduct from year to year, they have feldom prefented true motives of aftion, or faithfully difplayed their ultimate views. The biographical works which have appeared in the courfe of the French Revolution are, therefore, not to be implicitly depended on, but can only obtain a partial credit, by a comparifon with cotemporary narratives and with the billory of the times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.