Excerpt from A Gascon Royalist in Revolutionary Paris: The Baron De Batz 1792-1795 How can we account for the ignorance that prevails with regard to this man, whom his contemporaries believed to be so powerful? Nothing is known of the Baron de Batz: his history occupies a few lines in the biographical dictionaries: his dossier in the Archives tells us no more. Would he be so entirely forgotten if he had really held the fate of France in his hands throughout the Terror, and had moulded events at his will? With whom does the mistake lie? With his contemporaries, who regarded him as the pivot of the whole Revolution, or with posterity, who hitherto have been unaware that he ever lived? 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.