French Revolution, The by BELLOC, Hilaire
Summary: “It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual. But men nowhere do or can deny that the community acting as it thinks right is ultimately sovereign: there is no alternative to so plain a truth.” - Hilaire Belloc
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01 - Preface
02 - Chapter I The Political Theory of the Revolution
03 - Chapter I (concluded)
04 - Chapter II Rousseau
05 - Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - King Louis XVI
06 - Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - The Queen
07 - Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - Mirabeau
08 - Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - La Fayette - Dumouriez - Danton
09 - Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - Carnot - Marat - Robespierre
10 - Chapter IV - The Phases of the Revolution - I
11 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - I
12 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - II
13 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - III
14- Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - IV
15- Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - IV