Professor Barrett Wendell '77 delivered the seventh of his course of eight lectures on "Impressions of Contemporary France" in the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday afternoon. His subject was "The Revolution and some of its Effects."

Professor Wendell after reviewing the causes of the Revolution, spoke of the men who began it. An intense philanthropic and noble spirit, he said, urged them on with the demand for "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." They wished to substitute new democratic conditions for the old autocratic traditions. They succeeded in overthrowing the old conditions, and in their place the Empire arose.

The spirit of the Empire was expressed by Napoleon when he said that he aimed at those conditions under which a career would be open to every man of ability.

The Restoration followed the Empire, and the Bourbons were again placed on the throne. They had learned nothing from their past experience, however, and again tried to re-establish the old tradition of the divine right of kings. Reaction followed--and the monarchy gave way to the Second Empire, which in turn made way for the present Republic.

Thus in 80 years, six governments followed each other in quick succession in France. They gave rise to three classes of people--the Royalists, who were zealously devoted to the doctrine of the divine right of kings; the Imperialists, who tried to open the public service to all men; and the Revolutionists, who struggled vainly for their Utopian ideal of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Professor Wendell will deliver the last lecture of his course tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, on "The Republic and Democracy