Chapter V: Parties and Politicians Under the Constituent Assembly 98-128

No real party-government in the Assembly.--Gradual formation
of parties.--The Conservative Right and its various
groups.--Maury and Cazalés.--Mounier, Malouet and their
friends.--The party of Reform.--Bailly, Sieyès, Talleyrand,
Lafayette, Mirabeau, and others.--Duport, Barnave and
Lameth.--Robespierre and the extreme Left.--Predominance
of the democratic party outside the Assembly.--The
Cordeliers, the Jacobins and other clubs.--The birth of
modern journalism.--Prominent journalists and newspapers.--Mirabeau
and Barère.--Brissot, Loustallot and
Camille Desmoulins.--Marat and the _Ami du Peuple_.--Royalist
journals.--Mallet du Pan and the _Mercure_.--Important
politicians of this period.--Philippe of Orleans.--Necker.--The
Comte de Provence.--Lafayette.--Mirabeau.--Mirabeau's
exceptional insight and ability.--His
aims and attitude from the first.--His desire to establish a
strong, popular Government.--His vain attempts to win
Lafayette.--His ascendency in the Assembly.--His notes
for the Court and plans for reconciling the Crown with the
Revolution.--Summary of his character.