Extrait:Comment l'armée de l'ancienne monarchie s'est-elle transformée en armée de la Revolution? Comment ces soldats si devoués a la royauté sont-ils devenus les farouches républicains qui cherchèrent à soulever tous les peuples contre leurs rois? Voilà la question que nous avons essayé de résoudre. La marche à suivre nous à paru toute tracée: prendre les différents événements, les plus considerables du moins, et, a l'aide des rapports, des correspondances, des mémoires, étudier leur influence, nous rendre compte de leur contrecoup sur l'armée. Ainsi menée, cette étude nous a permis d'assister aux modifications qui se produisent peu à peu dans les esprits, car le travail qui se fit alors, aussi bien dans l'armée que dans le pays entier, fut un travail absolument méthodique dont il est facile de reconstituer la progression. Les événements n'arriverent pas au hasard: ils furent la conséquence les uns des autres, et, si jamais drame n'apparut aussi grandiose et aussi terrible, jamais non plus drame ne se deroula avec une logique plus inflexible.

L'Armée sous la Révolution: 1789-1794

À l'occasion de recherches aux Archives nationales, Ernest d'Hauterive, qui a publié plusieurs ouvrages sur la police, Napoléon et Fouché, a découvert des documents sur des policiers dont la vie fut pareille à un roman. Ce sont eux auxquels il rend hommage dans cet ouvrage qui nous en dit plus sur la police, mais aussi sur la police secrète. Qui étaient ces agents secrets, comment étaient-ils recrutés, comment travaillaient-ils....

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Excerpt from Journal of the Comte d'Espinchal: During the Emigration, Edited From the Original Manuscripts The Comte d'Espinchal, whose Journal we are now giving to the world, was an excellent example of the interesting personalities so common in society at the end of the eighteenth century. This handsome "gentleman of quality," with his tall, striking figure, his dark complexion, his open countenance, and his strongly pronounced aquiline nose, typified in his own person the supreme distinction of his race. As a scion of one of the oldest families of Auvergne, and the only son of a man who had been one of the Kings pages, he was taken to a boarding-school in Paris at the age of five, and a few years later, in 1762, was himself appointed a King's page in the Little Stables. He was soon attached to the household of the Dauphin, and when the latter died, in 1768, was for a short time page to the new Dauphin, the future Louis XVI; after which he became a captain in the Queen's Dragoons. For about twelve years he went from garrison to garrison, spending his winter furlough, as a rule, in Paris, where he saw a great deal of Society, for which he had a marked predilection. After his father's death, at the end of 1780, he came into a large fortune. He had then been married for eight years and had several children; and being unambitious, and finding the life of a soldier irksome in time of peace, he gradually gave up his military duties - he had been a colonel since 1774 - and settled in Paris, where he thenceforward spent a part of every winter. He was also a great deal with the Prince de Conde at Chantilly, and often visited his property in Auvergne. He also travelled in Italy and Switzerland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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