Abstract

Mirabeau

Author M. Louis de Lomenie did not have time to finish the great work on the book Mirabeau, which he had begun, and in which he used the papers left by the great orator to his executors. His son has published the notes left by his father, and has added just enough to them to give some unity and continuity to the work. Two volumes appeared a few years ago, in which M. de Lomenie set forth the stormy youth of French Revolutionist Honore Mirabeau, his quarrels with his family, his trials. The third volume, which now appears together with a fourth, begins in the year 1786. During the period, which preceded the Revolution, one finds Mirabeau aspiring, like all Frenchmen, for new institutions, without knowing exactly what these institutions were to be or how the change should be effected.