Alphonse Lamartine (1790–1869) was a French poet, writer and politician. Lamartine's fame reached its apogee in 1847, when he published “History of the Girondins,” essentially a history of the French Revolution. The History was first published a few months before the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848, during which Lamartine headed the Provisional Government of the Second Republic. The impression of the book was enormous, since it was written on the basis of rare documents to which Lamartine had access due to his political position, as well as his conversations with people who witnessed those events. “I would like the future republic to be Girondin, and not Jacobin" - these words of Lamartine directly indicate his attitude towards the participants in the revolution. It is not without reason that many historians reproached him for the fact that “History” is subjective in nature, that he sympathizes with the Girondins and even Robespierre, and in many ways idealizes them, while not hiding his hatred of the Jacobins. That is why, fifteen years later, when reprinting his work, Lamartine accompanied the text with an afterword, in which he tried to explain himself to the readers. And it is as interesting to read as the “History” itself. The text is printed with some abbreviations and in a new edition according to the publication GIRONDISTS HISTORICAL-PRAGMATIC STUDY IN FOUR VOLUMES ST. PETERSBURG 1911.