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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: of torture; the house itself they plundered and burned. The rural districts became at once uninhabitable, and the nobles fled in terror out of France. The assembly in angry haste abolished the unjust laws which had for ages oppressed the French people. During the 1 hours of a single evening sitting, the whole fabric of . feudal privilege was thrown to the ground. Henceforth the burden of taxation was to lie equitably on all classes; personal servitude, the exclusive right to hunt and shoot, the criminal jurisdiction of the nobles, the sale of public offices, ?all were instantly swept away, amidst transports of delight possible only in France. The abolition of tithes for support of the clergy followed immediately. Municipal government and universal suffrage were set up. The service of the state was no longer reserved for a favoured class; all offices, civil and military, were now open to all Frenchmen. The evil which had slowly crystallized during centuries into wicked laws was effaced at a stroke by the indignant representatives of the sufferers. The revolution had been very glorious, but it began to prove very costly. The people of Paris were too much elated to return to vulgar toil . They wandered about the streets, engaged in heated debate upon the rights of man and the iniquities of kings and nobles. And soon they found that as they earned no money so they could buy no food. The municipality had to feed the idle people. Bailly, the mayor of Paris, whom his thankless constituents ultimately hanged, often did not know at midnight how the city was to be fed next day. And thus also the revenue fell off by the decay of commerce, till it was smaller by one-third than it had been before. The deficit yawned wider and more devouring than it had done when the notables were s..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217061797 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217061796 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 340 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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