Iiiflacnce of the Breton Dejjutation 13 



hlees parlenwntaires de la Revolution. 2 vols. Paris, 

 1821. 



9. Droz, Joseph. HiMolre da rcgne de Louis XYI. 2 

 vols. Paris, 1839. 



10. Diicliatellier, A. Histoire de la Revolution dans 

 les departemcnts de Vancienne Bretagne. ... 6 vols. 

 Paris et Nantes, 1836. ^ 



11. Yie prive et politique du roi Isaac Chapelier. 

 KcDnes, 1790. Bib. Nat. Lb39/3100. A pamphlet of 112 

 pages violently attacking Le Chapelier, Mirabeau, and the 

 Breton deputies. 



111. The works of later historians. 



1. Aiilard, F. A. Etude's et Iccoiis sur la ReDolution 

 frangaisc. Premiere serie. Paris, 1893. 



2. Aulard, F. A. La Sooiete des Jacohins. Recucil 

 de documents pour VMstoire du Club des Jacobins de 

 Paris. 6 vols. Paris, 1889. 



3. Kerviler, Rene. Recherches et notices sur les 

 deputes de la Bretagne aux Etats Generaux et a VAssem- 

 hlec nationalc constituante de 1789. 2 vols. Rennes, 

 1889.^ By the same writer, Armorique et Bretagne. . 

 . . 3 vols. Paris, 1893. 



'Duchatellier is given here because he was in position to obtain 

 information from men who lived through and participated in the 

 events he narrates. 



^'Kerviler's worlv is valuable for our purpose principally for the 

 large amount of detail it contains concerning the individual deputies 

 of Bretagne, and for the numerous extracts from their correspond- 

 ence. The author has made but little attempt to interpret the work 

 of the deputation as a whole. He writes from a conservative point 

 of view with a tendency to permit his feelings to interfere with his 

 appreciation of the strength of historical motives, so important in 

 his subject. This seems to have prevented him from understanding 

 the most important member of the deputation, namely, Le Chapelier. 

 It must be admitted that Le Chapelier sometimes expressed himself 

 in very vigorous language, but it seems to have escaped Kerviler al- 

 together that he was repulsed by the violence of the July revolution — 

 that if he did indeed approve of it. it was only because he saw in it 



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