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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: stored to liberty, and could now hasten to her children, but she came back to them as a poor widow, for the seals of the one and indivisible republic were on hers and her children's property as well as on that of all other aristocrats. CHAPTER III. CONSEQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. France drew a breath of relief; the Reign of Terror was at an end, and a milder and more moderate government wielded the sceptre over the poor land that had so lately lain in the agonies of death. It was no longer a capital offence to bear an aristocratic name, to be better dressed than the sans-culottes, to wear no Jacobin-cap, and to be related to the emigrants. The guillotine, which had ruled over Paris during two years of blood and tears, now rested from its horrid work, and allowed the Parisians to think of something else besides making their wills and preparing for death. Mindful of the uncertainty of the times, the people were disposed to make the most of this release from the fear of immediate death, and to enjoy themselves to the utmost while they could. They had so long wept, that they eagerly desired to laugh once more; so long lived in sorrow and fear, that they now ardently longed for amusement and relaxation. The beautiful women of Paris, who had been dethronedby the guillotine, and from whose hands the reins had been torn, now found the courage to grasp these reins again, and reconquer the position from which the storm- wind of the revolution had hurled them. Madame Tallien, the all-powerful wife of one of the five directors who now swayed the destinies of France; Madame Recamier, the friend of all the eminent and distinguished men of that period; and Madame de Stael, the daughter of Necker, and the wife of the ambassador of Sweden, whose government had recognized the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217744980 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217744982 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $25.60 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 258 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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