d, impatient to
make themselves prominent....It is well known what interest this body
(the lawyers) had to change Reform into Revolution, the Monarchy into
a Republic; the object was to organize for itself a perpetual
aristocracy."--Buchez and Roux, II. 358 (article by C. Desmoulins). "In
the districts everybody exhausts his lungs and his time in trying to be
president, vice-president, secretary or vice-secretary"]

[Footnote 1418: Eugene Hatin, "Histoire de la Presse," vol. V. p. 113.
"Le Patriote francais" by Brissot, July 28, 1789.--"L'Ami du Peuple,"
by Marat, September 12, 1789.--"Annales patriotiques et litteraires," by
Carra and Mercier, October 5, 1789,--"Les Revolutions de Paris," chief
editor Loustalot, July 17th, 1789.--"Le Tribun du peuple," letters
by (middle of 1789).--"Revolutions de France et de Brabant," by C.
Desmoulins, November 28, 1789; his "France libre" (I believe of the
month of August, and his "Discours de la Lanterne" of the month of
September).--"The Moniteur" does not make its appearance until November
24, 1789. In the seventy numbers which follow, up to February 3, 1790,
the debates of the Assembly were afterwards written out, amplified, and
put in a dramatic form. All numbers anterior to February 3, 1790, are
the result of a compilation executed in the year IV. The narrative part
during the first six months of the Revolution is of no value. The report
of the sittings of the Assembly is more exact, but should be revised
sitting by sitting and discourse by discourse for a detailed history
of the National Assembly. The principal authorities which are really
contemporary are, "Le Mercure de France," "Le Journal de Paris," "Le
point de Jour" by Barrere, the "Courrier de Versailles," by Gorsas, the
"Courrier de Provence" by Mirabeau, the "Journal des Debats et Decrets,"
the official reports of the National assembly, the "Bulletin de
l'Asemblee Nationale," by Marat, besides the newspapers above cited
for the period following the 14th of July, and the speeches, which are
printed separately.]

[Footnote 1419: C. Desmoulins, letters of September 20th and of
subsequent dates. (He quote, a passage from Lucan in the sense
indicated).--Brissot, "Memoires," passim.--Biography of Danton by
Robinet. (See the testimony of Madame Roland and of Rousselin de
Saint-Albin.)]

[Footnote 1420: "Discours de la Lanterne." See the epigraph of the
engraving.]

[Footnote 1421: Buchez and Roux; III. 55; article of M