Because the need to raise taxes placed the king at odds with the nobles and the upper bourgeoisie, he appointed as his finance ministers, " rising men " ( to use François Mignet's insightful term ), usually of non-noble origin.

In another atmosphere, it might have been a plausible arrangement — in Mignet's words, " it was not the work of philosophers, but of austere Christians, who wished to support religion by the state, and to make them concur mutually in promoting its happiness " – but with much of the clergy already opposed to the revolution it became a trigger for schism.

Paris, close to insurrection, and, in François Mignet's words, " intoxicated with liberty and enthusiasm ," showed wide support for the Assembly.

Eulogies on his deceased fellow-members, the Academy reports on its work, and on the prizes awarded by it, which it was part of Mignet's duty as secretary to draw up, were thoroughly appreciated by connoisseurs, and were collected in Mignet's Notices et portraits.

The assembly would sit continuously, so as not to give a king or other ambitious individual the opportunity ( in Mignet's words ) " to profit by the intervals in which he would be left alone.

The court, in Mignet's words " encouraged every anti-revolutionary enterprise and avowed none ", while negotiating with Mirabeau for more favorable treatment under a constitution, if one could not be prevented.

Mignet's most famous works are devoted to modern history.

In Mignet's words, " No one succeeded him in power and popularity.

According to Mignet's History of the French Revolution, " The republic had very soon fourteen armies, and twelve hundred thousand soldiers.

Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials required, and started to build his own Flying Flea.

* Sprengel, Histoire de la Medicine ( 1815 )

* Leroux, Robert, Histoire et sociologie en France: de l ' histoire-science à la sociologie durkheimienne, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1998.

Histoire de la France ( 1989 ), textbook

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

* Haureau, Histoire de la phil.

* C. Schmidt, Histoire de l ' Église d ' Occident pendant le Moyen Âge ( Paris, 1885 )

Montucla in his Histoire de la Mathematique, which was published in 1757:

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

* Leon H. Histoire des Juifs de Bayonne, Paris, Armand Durlacher, 1893. in-4: xvj, 436 pp. ; illustré de 4 planches hors-texte.

fr: Histoire de la République centrafricaine

fr: Histoire de la Croatie

His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois ( 1827 ), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot ( 1831 ), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists.

fr: Histoire de la Chine

fr: Histoire de la Colombie

fr: Histoire de l ' archipel des Comores

Of his fairly numerous works the one of the most value is the " Histoire de l ' etablissement des Francais refugies dans les etats de Brandebourg " published in Berlin in 1690.

fr: Histoire de Djibouti

fr: Histoire de la Dominique

fr: Histoire de la République dominicaine

J. Bayet Histoire politique et psychologique de la religion romaine Paris 1957 p. 20 ff., 39ff.

fr: Histoire de la Guinée équatoriale

fr: Histoire de la Guyane

fr: Histoire de la Micronésie

He also edited and made valuable additions to Jacob Spon's Histoire de la republique de Geneve.

fr: Histoire de la Grenade

fr: Histoire de la Guinée

fr: Histoire de la Guinée-Bissau

Museums, Theaters and other Cultural Sites: Conservatoire de musique at Place Neuve 5, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Fonds cantonal d ' art contemporain, Ile Rousseau and statue, Institute and Museum of Voltaire with Library and Archives, Mallet House and Museum international de la Réforme, Musée Ariana, Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire, Museum d ' art moderne et contemporain, Museum d ' ethnographie, Museum of the International Red Cross, Musée Rath, Muséum d ' histoire naturelle, Salle communale de Plainpalais et théâtre Pitoëff, Villa Bartholoni et Museum d ' Histoire et Sciences

fr: Histoire de la Malaisie

fr: Histoire de la Grèce aux XIXe et XXe siècles

fr: Histoire de la Russie

fr: Histoire de la médecine