Excerpt from The Abbe Sieves, an Essay in the Politics, of the French Revolution
A good many years ago the late Lord Acton made a suggestion to a class of pupils at Cambridge of which this essay is the direct result. Those who know his lectures on the French Revolution will be able to measure my intellectual debt to him; only those who had the fortune to begin historical study with him as their master can understand my personal debt. They will remember long talks in his rooms at Trinity, infinite kindness towards the ignorant, loans of rare books, and letters that showed how constantly his pupils were in his mind. What I have written does not deserve to be dedicated to his memory; but I have tried to fall as little as might be short of his standard of workmanship. Much of the work was done during his lifetime; but it was laid aside and only resumed some little time ago. In connection with this later work I should like to thank especially, for services which they will recall, Professor Charles Vaughan, of Leeds, Mr. Harold Temperley, of Peterhouse, and my wife.
I have decided not to compile a bibliography either of books consulted or of Sieyes' writings. The former would serve no useful purpose.
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