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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 20 ARISTOCRATS. The downfall of Robespierre opened the prison- doors of thousands who had already been doomed as victims to the monster Revolution. The Yicomtesse de Beauharnois amongst the rest was liberated, and allowed to join her beloved children; but she left the prison a widow, and penniless, for her fortune, as well as that of her husband and of all other aristocrats, had been confiscated by the Republic one and indivisible. CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. France once more breathed freely. The Reign of Terror had passed by, and a milder and juster government held the reins of the poor quivering country. It was no longer a crime deserving of death to bear a noble name, to be better clothed than the sansculottes, to abstain from wearing a red cap, or to be related to an emigre. The guillotine, which for two years past had spread sorrow and tears in Paris, was allowed to rest, after its horrible activity, and the Parisians once more found leisure to think of something else besides making their wills and preparing for death. As the Parisians were allowed to call the present moment, at any rate, their own, they wished to enjoy it before it had passed away; before new days of anxiety should come to startle them out of their CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. 21 newly-acquired security. They had wept so much that they were now eager to have a laugh; they had lived so long in fear and mourning that they now longed for some amusement. The fair ladies of Paris whom the guillotine and the Reign of Terror had deprived of their authority, and driven from their throne, found courage sufficient to take up again the sceptre that had dropped from their hands, and to re- occupy the seat whence the tornado of the Revolution had swept them. Madame Tallien, t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III. To get started finding Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 114

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 021786337X

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 20 ARISTOCRATS. The downfall of Robespierre opened the prison- doors of thousands who had already been doomed as victims to the monster Revolution. The Yicomtesse de Beauharnois amongst the rest was liberated, and allowed to join her beloved children; but she left the prison a widow, and penniless, for her fortune, as well as that of her husband and of all other aristocrats, had been confiscated by the Republic one and indivisible. CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. France once more breathed freely. The Reign of Terror had passed by, and a milder and juster government held the reins of the poor quivering country. It was no longer a crime deserving of death to bear a noble name, to be better clothed than the sansculottes, to abstain from wearing a red cap, or to be related to an emigre. The guillotine, which for two years past had spread sorrow and tears in Paris, was allowed to rest, after its horrible activity, and the Parisians once more found leisure to think of something else besides making their wills and preparing for death. As the Parisians were allowed to call the present moment, at any rate, their own, they wished to enjoy it before it had passed away; before new days of anxiety should come to startle them out of their CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. 21 newly-acquired security. They had wept so much that they were now eager to have a laugh; they had lived so long in fear and mourning that they now longed for some amusement. The fair ladies of Paris whom the guillotine and the Reign of Terror had deprived of their authority, and driven from their throne, found courage sufficient to take up again the sceptre that had dropped from their hands, and to re- occupy the seat whence the tornado of the Revolution had swept them. Madame Tallien, t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III. To get started finding Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Mother of Napoleon III, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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