The following Lectures were delivered by Lord Acton as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in the academical years 1895-96, 1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99. The French Revolution, 1789-95, was in those years one of the special subjects set for the Historical Tripos, and this determined the scope of the course. In addition some discussion of the literature of the Revolution generally took place either in a conversation class or as an additional lecture. Such connected fragments of these as remain have been printed as an appendix. For the titles of the Lectures the editors are responsible.

J. N. F.
R. V. L.

August 10, 1910

CONTENTS

I. The Heralds of the Revolution [1]
II. The Influence of America [20]
III. The Summons of the States-General [39]
IV. The Meeting of the States-General [57]
V. The Tennis-Court Oath [68]
VI. The Fall of the Bastille [77]
VII. The Fourth of August [94]
VIII. The Constitutional Debates [109]
IX. The March to Versailles [126]
X. Mirabeau [141]
XI. Sieyès and the Constitution Civile [159]
XII. The Flight to Varennes [174]
XIII. The Feuillants and the War [193]
XIV. Dumouriez [210]
XV. The Catastrophe of Monarchy [224]
XVI. The Execution of the King [240]
XVII. The Fall of the Gironde [256]
XVIII. The Reign of Terror [269]
XIX. Robespierre [284]
XX. La Vendée [301]
XXI. The European War [317]
XXII. After the Terror [331]
Appendix: The Literature of the Revolution [345]
Index [375]