464 Readings in European History Buchez et Roux, Histoire parlementaire de la revolution francaise, 40 vols., 1834-1838. This contains extracts from the debates in the Assembly, with the text of some of the important decrees. It gives quotations from the newspapers and from the speeches in the Jacobin and other political clubs, etc. Notwithstanding very defective tables of contents, this has been the mainstay of many writers, and is still very valuable, by reason of its comprehensiveness and cheapness; the 40 volumes are procurable in Paris for from fifteen to twenty dollars. The news- Reimpression de Vancien Moniteur (several editions), 32 vols. This papers. - IS a re print of one of the most important newspapers of the revolution- ary period. It can be bought for about twenty dollars. Examples of other important newspapers may be found in our best libraries. Archives parlementaires de 1787-1860, first series, 1 787-1 799, of which some 66 volumes have appeared, reaching the middle of the year 1793. This is an official but not very critical collection of the debates in the successive French legislative bodies, and occasionally includes other useful material. Vol. I contains an excellent account of the events preceding the opening of the Estates General. Vols. II-VI of the Archives parlementaires contain the most com- plete collection in existence of the cahiers ; but this must be supple- mented by the collections of local cahiers which appear from time to time. (See Ca?nbridge Modern History, Vol. VIII, pp. 802 sq.) Much attention has been given in the past twenty years to the pub- lication of documents, especially in Paris. The following collections are important : Brette, Recueil des documents relatifs a la convocation des e'tats generaux, 2 vols., 1 894-1896 ; Aulard, La Societi des Jacobins, 6 vols., 1 889-1 897 ; Recueil des actes du Comite de salut publique, 16 vols., 1889-1904. Mirabeau, Correspondance avec le comte de la Marck, 3 vols., 185 1. Very important. Stephens, H. Morse, The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution, I78g-i7g^, 2 vols., Clarendon Press. Very useful. Legg, Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the French Revo- lution, The Constituent Assembly, 2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1905. An admirable " source book." The comments are in English ; the extracts are reproduced in the original French. Memoirs. Of the many memoirs, perhaps the most important are those of Bailly, Ferrieres, Mallet du Pan, Malouet, the Comte de Fersen, etc. 1 Collections of the Cahiers. Great collec- tions of materials. 1 See bibliographies in the Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VIII, and in the Histoire generate, Vol. VIII.
