Excerpt from Select Documents, Illustrative of the History of the French Revolution, Vol. 1: The Constituent Assembly This work is an attempt to tell the story of the French Revolution almost m the words of the French men of the time. Many works have been written on the causes of the Revolution, and on the philosophy which guided it; but, so far as I am aware, no attempt similar to this has been made to show the impression left by events on contemporary Frenchmen. That such. An effort is highly presumptuous, I readi] acknowledge; and, consequently, a few words on t e Ian of the book may not be out of place, in view of t e excessive abundance of material, necessitating a somewhat arbitrary selection of the different branches of the subject. 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.