Book/Printed Material Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France.
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Image 3 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France.- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 4 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France.- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 6 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. NEW PUBLICATIONS FreNcH EDITION oF DUMONTS MIRABEAU c 9s I SOUVENIRS SUR MIRABEAU By ETIENNE DUMONT of Geneva It abounds with the most important and interest ing detailsTimes The most amnsing and…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 7 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. RECOLLECTIONS OF MIRABEAU AND OF THE TWO FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES OF FRANCE re BY ETIENNE DUMONT OF GENEVA LONDON EDWARD BULL HOLLES STREET 1832- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 9 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS Page Preface by the English Editor oe xin Preface by the Genevese Editor sexx CHAPTER I Motives which induced the author to write these Recollec tionsThe revolution of Geneva in 1789…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 10 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. il CONTENTS Some traits of his private characterHis work on the Prussian monarchyMajor Mauvillon the principal author Quarrel between M de Calonne and M Necker about the déficitM Neckers answerMirabeau forms the…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 11 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS ill CHAPTER ITI Page How Mirabeau was situated in the assembly on the opening of the statesgeneralHis bitterness against the assembly Conversations on this subjectThe author engages him to be more…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 12 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS communicate it to NeckerThis plan concealed from Mi rabeauIt is spoiled by the influence of the court party Royal sessionIts effect upon the assembly and the public ReflectionsCircumstance which determined Necker…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 13 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS Vv CHAPTER VII Page Complete union of the ordersAspect of the assembly Address to the peopleMirabeau requests the author to write itCause of its want of successWeakness of the assembly regarding…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 14 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. V1 CONTENTS CHAPTER IX Camille DesmoulinsLa ClosHis connexion with Mirabeau Was Mirabeau acting in concert with the Duke of Or leansFacts for and againstTranslation from Milton against royalty Duroverai prevents its publication…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 15 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS Vil CHAPTER XI Page Connexion of Mirabeau with the courtConfidence on this subjectPlan of a counterrevolution by MirabeauKings departureBasis of the planAppeal to the nation Decrees of the assembly annulledImmediate convocation…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 16 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. Vill CONTENTS Page NeckerChampfortReturn to Paris with Achille Ducha teletHis characterAnecdotesConversation with Mi rabeauHis connexion with the QueenHe directs the court partyReport of diplomatic committeeAuthors share in itAnecdoteIncreased expense in Mirabeaus style…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 17 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS x Page Necker ClaviéreHis opinion of WashingtonSaying concerning the assemblyAnnoyance at praise bestowed upon mediocritySaying of the author on this subject Viscount de MirabeauLaughable answerPersonal courage of Mirabeau Adored by his…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 18 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. x CONTENTS Page positionBad mode of carrying on proceedings Immu_ tability of constitutional decreesFear of a counterrevo lutionEmigrationAfiliation and institution of the Ja cobins Wrong measures of the court party cCauses of…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 19 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. CONTENTS Speech to bring the Girondists into power made by GensonnéPétions speeches V ergniaud GuadetGen sonnéBuzotRcedererCondorcet CHAPTER XxX The author taken to RolandsCharacter of the latter Madame Roland Memoirs Servan LouvetLanthe nasPacheClavieére…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 20 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. Xl CONTENTS Page the author to accompanying himRefusalMotives The Genevese government request him to proceed to Paris Army at the gates of GenevaMontesquiou Travels with an Irish quaker who is come to…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 21 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. PREFACE BY THE ENGLISH EDITOR THERE is no public character whose actions have been more the subject of misrepresentation and over whom calumny has had greater sway than the Count de Mirabeau…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 22 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XIV PREFACE Dumont a man of high character and unsullied principles to rescue his name from the blind obloquy by which it has been so long and so unjustly obscured With all…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 23 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE ENGLISH EDITOR XV with his dying aspirations and the love of France ceased in his heart but with his last breath His great powers of intellect and transcendant eloquence maintained…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 24 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XV1 PREFACE tous interest Our regret arises from the very perfection of the work even in its unfinished state and had Dumont found leisure to fill up the periods connecting its different…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 25 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE ENGLISH EDITOR XVil State into two classes whose hostility to each other is instinctive A few privileged indivi duals hold the reins of power and for their own interest and…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 26 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XVlil PREFACE BY THE ENGLISH EDITOR which in 1789 induced the Count dArtois to convert the conciliatory object of the royal ses sion into the immediate cause of the first revolu tionary…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 27 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. PREFACE BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR Ir is not my intention to write a biographical notice of M Etienne Dumont Two illu striousauthors M de Candolle and M de Sis mondi have already…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 28 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. xx PREFACE the expression of their regret at the loss which our country science and literature have just sustained To render however the present work more intelligible it is necessary that I…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 29 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR XxI He left St Petersburgh in 1785 and went to London to reside with Lord Shelburne then a minister of state who confided to him the general education…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 30 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XxXli PREFACE by his private virtues and his great talents as a Jawyer and a political orator The friendship which united these two men increased daily nor did its activity cease till…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 31 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR XXIL writings of the English publicist known and de voted the greater part of his life in rendering available to the world at large the exhaustless store of…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 32 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XXIV PREFACE assembly and made him an interested spectator sometimes a participator in the events of the French revolution The importance of the changes about to be operated and the immense interest…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 33 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR XXV self states by no means flattering and that of an influential connexion with a man whose cha racter was not untainted alarmed his delicacy From that period…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 34 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XVI PREFACE patiently expecting his return when they re ceived the news of his death They who were intimate with him can alone appreciate the charm which his goodness of heart his…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 35 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR XXVil contains materials fer history which it is but just to submit to the judgment and criticism of those best able to appreciate them I mean the contemporaries…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 36 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XXVIIl PREFACE buted to the happiness of mankind by the pro pagation of useful ideas and he never sought I will not say to raise his fame at the expense of that…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 37 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESE EDITOR XXI1X is solely to prove that if M Dumont consented to work in the second rank if he preferred in some sort to abandon his own stock and…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 38 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XXX PREFACE with whom he lived and proves the depth and correctness of his judgment the elegance of his mind his feelings of high honour and gives be sides a specimen of…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 39 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. BY THE GENEVESFE EDITOR XXXl was not from the speculation of an inferior mind incapable of proceeding alone and who would consider such an association as a real bonnefortune but rather from…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
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Image 40 of Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France. XXXIl PREFACE sonages of that epoch and particularly with Mirabeau afforded him the knowledge of many facts unknown to most of those who have written upon the same subject and besides observations…- Contributor: Dumont, Étienne
- Date: 1832
About this Item
Title
- Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the two first legislative assemblies of France.
Names
- Dumont, Étienne, 1759-1829.
Created / Published
- London, E. Bull, 1832.
Headings
- - Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti,--comte de,--1749-1791
- - France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
- - France.--Etats généraux, 1789. [from old catalog]
- - France.--Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791)
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 2 p.l., xxxv, 404 p. fold. facsims. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DC146.M7 D89
Library of Congress Control Number
- 04010142
Online Format
- online text
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