Royal and Republican France, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Essays Reprinted From the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and British and Foreign Reviews (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Royal and Republican France, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Essays Reprinted From the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and British and Foreign Reviews

The chapters which compose this volume touch successively on a few of these events. They do not form a narrative, nor do they profess to relate in detail any considerable portion of French history. But, in examining some of these transactions, and the lives of some of the eminent men who have borne a part in them, the writer has endeavoured to extract from them their common bearing on the great fact of the Revolution itself. For this purpose it is necessary to go back two centuries in order to trace in the Closet and the Court of Louis XIV., through the gorgeous pageant of national greatness, the germs of national abasement. The fatal passion for foreign influence and territorial aggrandizement.

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Excerpt from Royal and Republican France, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Essays Reprinted From the Edinburgh, Quarterly, and British and Foreign Reviews

The papers collected in these volumes were first written and published in various Reviews at intervals extending over a period of nearly thirty years. But although the occasions and incidents by which they were originally suggested were diverse and multifarious, they have not the less a common purpose - to trace throughout the history and politics of modern France, the causes and results of the Revolution which has profoundly affected the forms of government and the state of society in that country The study of the French Revolution is, in truth, the work of a life.

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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.