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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: III. 1800?1804. We spent those four years in turn in Paris and at Ormes. I was in Paris on the 3rd of Nivose, at the time of the explosion of the infernal machine. I heard it from the house where we then resided: it was the pavilion in the Eue Saint-Dominique, in which Madame de Genlis brought up the Princes of the House of Orleans. That abominable attempt did not excite so much horror and awe as might have been expected, so great was then the carelessness and indifference of the public mind, now incapable of emotions, depraved by the Kevolution. I must, however, humbly confess that the iniquitous reprisals, unscrupulously carried out by the Consular Government, the arbitrary imprisonments, the suppression of newspapers, the indiscriminate transportations? now the Jacobins paying for the Chouans, and now The Royalist insurgents of Vend6e. the latter for the Jacobins?did not, either, excite a very strong indignation among the respectable class of people. Society, which was being rapidly re-organized by a powerful and, all things considered, a healing hand, was not so particular. Exiles of various periods and opinions returned home in crowds, recovered part of their property, petitioned for the rest, and did not set themselves against the authorities who allowed them to expect such restitution. Those among Revolutionists who were really converted, or who proclaimed themselves to be?who put aside their red caps until such time as they could cut red ribbons and red heels out of them (as they were ingeniously represented to be doing in an English caricature of the time)?were indifferent whether they rendered themselves guilty of fresh acts of violence. The friends of liberty?of true liberty? the heirs of 1789, innocent of all the crimes committed by the Assemblec Legislati...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217973762
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 94
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217973760
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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