"It may be said that the success of the Revolution is due to this class."-- Marmontel, II.

243 "Since the first elections of Paris, in 1789, I remarked," he says, "this species of restless intriguing men, contending with each other to be heard, 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.