Memoirs of the Right Reverend Simon Wm; Gabriel Brute, D.D., First Bishop of Vincennes - With Sketches Describing His Recollections of Scenes Connected With the French Revolution, and Extracts From His Journal #271681

Extenfive and valuable correfpondence. In this view I collected a large number of Letters, and Documents, and made many notes. But, fuch an undertaking, as Lord Bacon fays of learning, cometh of opportunity of leifure, and my con f'rant occupations then, and fince, have never per mitted me to carry out my defign. They would. Probably have caufed me to abandon it altogether, had not fome friends, to whom I had {hown the Notes on the French Revolution, and who were {truck with 'the light which they threw upon, What may be called the interior or domeftic fcenes Of that dreadful Tragedy, urged me to prepare them, at leaft, for publication. Having done f0, Ifound that it was neceltary to preface them by a brief Sketch Of Bifhop Brute's Life. In preparing this from the memoranda in my poffeflion, it will be perceived that I have not attempted a Biography, properly {0 called, but have merely drawn out a thread of narrative to firing the notes on, partien larly fuch as illuftrate the period in queftion. They will be found, when read in connection with the Sketches and Journal, to bring into relief a portion Of the picture of the Revolution which has been too much overlooked. Hiftorians have dwelt upon.