Introduction a la Révolution française, English / Barnave, Antoine.

Barnave's role in the French Revolution -- Genre of philosophical history -- Aristocracy and democracy -- Violence and progress -- Barnave and eighteenth-century culture -- Sense of modernity and the idea of the past -- Barnave, Marx and the Bourgeois revolution -- I. General point of view -- II. That which produces the form of governments -- III. General application of these ideas from feudal government to the present -- IV. Application of these ideas to ancient States -- V. Application of the same ideas of modern Europe -- VI. Development and proof of the preceding by examples and facts -- VII. Consequences to religion of the progress of civilization -- VIII. Democratic influences: the Italian and Flemish Republics -- IX. General ideas on the republics of Europe -- X. General ideas on monarchies -- XI. Application of the preceding to the inland states of Europe and to the Maritime States -- XII. Immediate causes which occasioned the French Revolution -- XIII. Combined influences which were to act on the revolution -- Appendix: selections from Barnave's notebooks -- 1. Of the moral sciences among the ancients and the moderns -- 2. Of the errors of men and peoples -- 3. Right and fact -- 4. Of reason -- 5. Influence of the philosophical sect on literature in general -- 6. J. J. Rousseau -- 9. Of the effect of commerce on governments -- 10. Of taxation -- 11. Of the public debt -- 12. Of governments that hoard.