The History Of The Bastile, And Of Its Principal Captives - Hardcover

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Oriental fruit-hawker: In the name of the Prophet figs! I can bear witness how much what is purposed goes beyond what is accomplished. I began loftily, and perhaps the reader will say, that I have ended with figs. At the outset I designed to link, in some measure, the history of the Bastile with that of France, and to trace the rise and progress of those parties, factions, and sects, which furnished inmates to the prisons of state. But I soon discovered that the contracted limits of a single volume would not admit of my plan beingcarried into execution.
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