Hilaire Belloc 
French Revolution [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. First, therefore, it is necessary to set down, clearly without modern accretion, that political theory which was a sort of religious creed, supplying the motive force of the whole business; of the new Civil Code as Of the massacres; Of the panics and capitulations as of the victories of the successful trans formation of society as Of the conspicuous failures in detail which still menace the achievement of the Revolution.