BOOK III.

I. Of the violent and undefined Agitation of the Human Mind at the moment when the French Revolution broke out 192 II. How this vague perturbation of the Human Mind suddenly became in France a positive passion, and what form this passion at first assumed 201 III. How the Parliaments of France, following precedent, overthrew the Monarchy 205 IV. The Parliaments discover that they have lost all Authority, just when they thought themselves masters of the Kingdom 224 V. Absolute Power being subdued, the true spirit of the Revolution forthwith became manifest 229 VI. The preparation of the instructions to the Members of the States-General drove the conception of a Radical Revolution home to the mind of the People 240 VII. How, on the Eve of the Convocation of the National Assembly, the mind of the Nation was more enlarged, and its spirit raised 243 Notes and Illustrations 247