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Dearth the first cause. - Bad crops. The winter of 1788 and 1789. - High price and poor quality of bread. - In the provinces. - At Paris. During the night of July 14-15, 1789, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld- Liancourt caused Louis XVI to be aroused to inform him of the taking of the Bastille. "It is a revolt, then?" exclaimed the King. "Sire!" replied the Duke; "it is a revolution!" The event was even more serious. Not only had power slipped from the hands of the King, but also it had not fallen into those of the Assembly. It now lay on the. | The French Revolution vol 1 1 The French Revolution vol 1 The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Origins of Contemporary France 2 in our series by Hippolyte A. Taine The French Revolution Volume 1. The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 Copyright laws are changing all over the world be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts Etexts Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These Etexts Prepared By Hundreds of Volunteers and Donations Information on contacting Project Gutenberg to get Etexts and further information is included below. We need your donations. Title The French Revolution Volume 1. Title The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 Author Hippolyte A. Taine April 2001 Etext 2578 Most recently updated December 15 2002 The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Origins of Contemporary France This file should be named or Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER This Etext prepared by Svend Rom. Translated by John Durand. Slightly corrected and normalized by Svend Rom whose remarks are signed SR. Project Gutenberg Etexts are usually created from multiple editions all of which are in the Public Domain in the United States unless a copyright notice is included. Therefore we usually do NOT keep any of these books in compliance with any particular paper edition. We are now trying to release all our books one month in advance of the official release dates leaving time for better editing. Please note neither this list nor its contents are final till midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement. The official release date of all Project Gutenberg Etexts is .