not even try to eliminate the most important, that is, the social consequences of the great revolution. No one could even then fail to see that, in this respect, nothing can be changed any more; that despite all the ever so liberal "indemnification" of the feudal nobility, its leading role in the life of society had come to an end forevermore. With the great revolution begins the uncontested rule of the bourgeoisie.
Small wonder then that the bourgeoisie remembered this important event when it celebrated its centennial anniversary. Even some years prior to the celebration of the anniversary of the revolution, the bourgeois press trumpeted in all possible keys about the coming great festivity. But let us observe a little more closely how the bourgeoisie remembers its revolution. How was this momentous event pictured in its mind?
Before us lies the book of one of the patented scientists of the French bourgeoisie, Paul Janet ("Centenaire de 1789, Histoire de la Revolution Francaise," par Paul Janet, Paris) who, sometimes—he him-
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