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Excerpt from The Principal Speeches of the Statesmen and Orators of the French Revolution, 1789-1795, Vol. 1: Edited With Introductions, Notes, and Indices; Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Gensonné, Guadet, Louvet, Cambon This is not the place to trace the growth of eloquence in France from the pedantic days of the Middle Ages, when the rules laid down by Aristotle and Quintilian were in variably obeyed, through the epoch of the revival of classical learning, when Cicero's speeches were the recognized models, down to modern times, when every public speaker tries to create an individual manner of his own. It is enough to point out the three chief directions in Which French oratory was developed before the convocation of the States General in 1789, and to show the respective influence of the three different styles in formin g the methods adopted by the famous speakers of the period of the French Revolution. These three varieties were pulpit, legal and academical oratory, each of which had a distinctive history and possessed its special characteristics. 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.