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The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Their object is rather to lay, if that be possible, an explanation of it before the English reader; so that he may understand both what it was and how it proceeded, and also why certain problems hitherto unfamiliar to Englishmen have risen out of it. 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. | The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc 1 The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc The Project Gutenberg EBook of The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The French Revolution Author Hilaire Belloc Release Date February 8 2011 EBook 35215 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Produced by Steven Gibbs Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC . The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc 2 AUTHOR OF DANTON ROBESPIERRE MARIE ANTOINETTE THE OLD ROAD THE PATH TO ROME PARIS THE HILLS AND THE SEA THE HISTORIC THAMES ETC. ETC. LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE RICHARD CLAY AND SONS LIMITED BRUNSWICK STREET STAMFORD STREET . AND BUNGAY SUFFOLK. PREFACE The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Their object is rather to lay if that be possible an explanation of it before the English reader so that he may understand both what it was and how it proceeded and also why certain problems hitherto unfamiliar to Englishmen have risen out of it. 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 transformation of society as of the conspicuous failures in detail which still menace the achievement of the Revolution. This grasped the way in which the main events followed each other and the reason of their interlocking and proceeding as they did must be