Source Problems On the French Revolution

ndance, Paris, 1903. The Bailli de Virieu was the minister of Parma to the court of Versailles. The original of the letters, written in Italian, to his home government, are found in the archives of Parma. They are among the most valuable of the correspondence of the foreign ministers at that time in Paris. The Marquis de Virieu, in 1884, copied the Italian letters in the archives of Parma and made a French translation of them. The English text in the extract given below is, then, a translation of a French translation of an Italian original. C. QUESTIONS FOR STUDY 1. How many of the writers of the sources contained in this study were eye-witnesses of the events they described? 2. How many of the sources describing the events of June 2oth at Versailles are independent? 3. Upon what sources are the dependent ones dependent? 4. Are all the sources in this study, written by eye-witnesses, equally valuable? Give the reasons for thinking some less valuable than others. 5. Some eye-witnesses reproduce the accounts of other eye witnesses, thus placing their stamp of approval upon them. Does that increase the value of these accounts? Cite cases and give reasons. 6. Prove that there were two sessions of the national assembly on June zoth. 7. When and where was the Procms-verbal of the first session written? 8. Why did not the first Proces-verbal contain copies of the letters which passed between Bailly and De Bre'ze'? g. For wh...