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  • History tells us of dreadful deeds and appalling barbarities during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • I'd spend an hour crafting a casual e-mail to her, I became a student of arcana so I could keep her interested: the Lake poets, the code duello, the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Then came the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Aunty hon-ey, that sort of thing went out with the French Revolution, or began with it, I forget which.†   (source)
  • I was dubbed the Black Pimpernel, a somewhat derogatory adaptation of Baroness Orczy's fictional character the Scarlet Pimpernel, who daringly evaded capture during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • If the French Revolution were to recur eternally, French historians would be less proud of Robespierre.†   (source)
  • In 1795, Julian Fedon, a black planter of mixed French ancestry, led an uprising inspired by the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution was over, as declared Bonaparte himself.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution in the late 1700s wasn't just an uprising of common people overthrowing the monarchy in favor of democracy and republicanism.†   (source)
  • The age of reason, prematurely welcomed by the leaders of the French Revolution two and a half centuries before, had now really arrived.†   (source)
  • Reading like another of Bortz's costume dramas, it told of a great schism in the Tristero ranks during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • It was a play about the French Revolution and the leading part was a nobleman.†   (source)
  • Yet it was the French Revolution that gave us the first inklings of feminism.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution in 1787 established a number of rights for all 'citizens.'†   (source)
  • The guillotine of the French Revolution can't compete, and even in the cellars of the Russian secret police they haven't devised such virtuoso methods of mass slaughter.†   (source)
  • One of those who fought hardest for the rights of women during the French Revolution was Olympe de Gouges.†   (source)
  • Gouges, Marie Olympe (1748-1793), Fr. author, played a prominent role during the French Revolution with numerous brochures on social questions and several plays.†   (source)
  • States, was but a prelude to what would be Burke's most famous book, Reflections on the French Revolution, published late in 1790.†   (source)
  • Since the days of the French Revolution, one half of Europe has been referred to as the left, the other half as the right.†   (source)
  • Ahead of anyone in the government, and more clearly than any, Adams foresaw the French Revolution leading to chaos, horror, and ultimate tyranny.†   (source)
  • It was Adams, and the damage done was extreme, given the overwhelming popularity of both Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • At another point, commenting on the French Revolution, Jefferson said it seemed all to have been a dream.†   (source)
  • When a lone man tried to sing "Ciera," the marching song of the French Revolution, there were shouts to throw him out.†   (source)
  • The other, Jefferson, disliked and distrusted the British, while seeing in France and the French Revolution the embodiment of the highest ideals of the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • "The French Revolution," he wrote to a Dutch friend, Francis van der Kemp, "will, I hope, produce effects in favor of liberty, equity, and humanity as extensive as this whole globe and as lasting as all time."†   (source)
  • The patriots of the French Revolution, Adams declared, knowing perfectly well how it would provoke Jefferson, were like drunken sailors on wild horses, "lashing and speering till they would kill the horses and break their own necks."†   (source)
  • Young Genet had been dispatched to America with instructions to rouse American support for France, spread the principles of the French Revolution, and encourage privateering against British shipping by American seamen.†   (source)
  • If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century—any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America—or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.†   (source)
  • They wrote of old friends and their own friendship, of great causes past, common memories, books, politics, education, philosophy, religion, the French, the British, the French Revolution, American Indians, the American navy, their families, their health, slavery—eventually—and their considered views on life, society, and always, repeatedly, the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • The Eden of liberty, plenty, and love, the dream of the French Revolution coming to pass.†   (source)
  • …waiting, looking, not yet asking why? or what? the gate of solid beams in place of the lacelike iron grilling and they passing on, Bon knocking at a small adjacent doorway from which a swarthy man resembling a creature out of an old woodcut of the French Revolution erupts, concerned, even a little aghast, looking first at the daylight and then at Henry and speaking to Bon in French which Henry does not understand and Bon's teeth glinting for an instant before he answers in French: With…†   (source)
  • Thus, though we do not know what Shakespeare went through when he wrote LEAR, we do know what Carlyle went through when he wrote the FRENCH REVOLUTION; what Flaubert went through when he wrote MADAME BOVARY; what Keats was going through when he tried to write poetry against the coming death and the indifference of the world.†   (source)
  • It was true; he was for the most part happy; he had his wife; he had his children; he had promised in six weeks' time to talk "some nonsense" to the young men of Cardiff about Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and the causes of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • There never were men placed in such egotistic positions since—oh, since the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • "Oh, a term that came up in the French Revolution," said Keck.†   (source)
  • Well, I am, if you please; I was born before the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.†   (source)
  • All were the direct sons of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:— "The French Revolution!"†   (source)
  • The French Revolution is the consecration of humanity.†   (source)
  • Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a profound thing,— the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French Revolution: liberty darts rays from France.†   (source)
  • He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap of blackguards."†   (source)
  • To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke's arraignment of the French Revolution had then been published for some time and had gone everywhere.†   (source)
  • "Of course, it's overflowing just as the French Revolution did, but I've no doubt that it's really a great experiment and well worth while."†   (source)
  • Appendix K It is incorrect to assert that centralization was produced by the French Revolution; the revolution brought it to perfection, but did not create it.†   (source)
  • Half of the money went to the French Revolution, half to purchase Lord Gaunt's Marquisate and Garter—and the remainder—" but it forms no part of our scheme to tell what became of the remainder, for every shilling of which, and a great deal more, little Tom Eaves, who knows everybody's affairs, is ready to account.†   (source)
  • …count, and continue this conversation at my house, any day you may be willing to see an adversary capable of understanding and anxious to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. Noirtier de Villefort, one of the most fiery Jacobins of the French Revolution; that is to say, he had the most remarkable audacity, seconded by a most powerful organization—a man who has not, perhaps, like yourself seen all the kingdoms of the earth, but who has helped to overturn one of the greatest; in…†   (source)
  • The French revolution is an act of God.†   (source)
  • B'lieve I did heah somethin' about his givin' talks on the French Revolution, equality, and such like.†   (source)
  • This double character of the French Revolution is a fact which has been adroitly handled by the friends of absolute power.†   (source)
  • * In August 1791, as a consequence of the French Revolution, the black slaves and mulattoes on Haiti rose in revolt against the whites, and in the period of turmoil that followed enormous cruelties were practised by both sides.†   (source)
  • We learn that Luther had a hot temper and said such and such things; we learn that Rousseau was suspicious and wrote such and such books; but we do not learn why after the Reformation the peoples massacred one another, nor why during the French Revolution they guillotined one another.†   (source)
  • In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart.†   (source)
  • He was agitated; this extraordinary gathering not only of nobles but also of the merchant-class—les etats generaux (States-General)—evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long laid aside but which were deeply graven in his soul: thoughts of the Contrat social and the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • In the fifties we were near enough the echoes of the French Revolution to believe pretty thoroughly in universal suffrage.†   (source)
  • *a The wars of the French Revolution and of 1812 had created manufacturing establishments in the North of the Union, by cutting off all free communication between America and Europe.†   (source)
  • Put it even that they are like the fishwives who helped to bring back to Paris from Versailles, on that most ominous day of the first half of the French Revolution, the carriage of the royal family.†   (source)
  • Those princes rejected all the innovations of the French Revolution except centralization: that is the only principle they consented to receive from such a source.†   (source)
  • Everybody knows the melancholy end of that nobleman, which befell at Naples two months after the French Revolution of 1830; when the Most Honourable George Gustavus, Marquis of Steyne, Earl of Gaunt and of Gaunt Castle, in the Peerage of Ireland, Viscount Hellborough, Baron Pitchley and Grillsby, a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece of Spain, of the Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of the Crescent, First Lord of…†   (source)
  • …that the cause of events lies in intellectual activity, only by a great stretch can one admit that there is any connection between intellectual activity and the movement of peoples, and in no case can one admit that intellectual activity controls people's actions, for that view is not confirmed by such facts as the very cruel murders of the French Revolution resulting from the doctrine of the equality of man, or the very cruel wars and executions resulting from the preaching of love.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution, by dividing the fortunes of the nobility, by forcing them to attend assiduously to their affairs and to their families, by making them live under the same roof with their children, and in short by giving a more rational and serious turn to their minds, has imparted to them, almost without their being aware of it, a reverence for religious belief, a love of order, of tranquil pleasures, of domestic endearments, and of comfort; whereas the rest of the nation, which…†   (source)
  • In the French Revolution there were two impulses in opposite directions, which must never be confounded—the one was favorable to liberty, the other to despotism.†   (source)
  • And beginning with the French Revolution the old inadequately large group was destroyed, as well as the old habits and traditions, and step by step a group was formed of larger dimensions with new customs and traditions, and a man was produced who would stand at the head of the coming movement and bear the responsibility for all that had to be done.†   (source)
  • The propensity which democracies have to obey the impulse of passion rather than the suggestions of prudence, and to abandon a mature design for the gratification of a momentary caprice, was very clearly seen in America on the breaking out of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • It would be ridiculous to compare the American was to the wars of the French Revolution, or the efforts of the Americans to those of the French when they were attacked by the whole of Europe, without credit and without allies, yet capable of opposing a twentieth part of their population to the world, and of bearing the torch of revolution beyond their frontiers whilst they stifled its devouring flame within the bosom of their country.†   (source)
  • Nor could there have been a war had there been no English intrigues and no Duke of Oldenburg, and had Alexander not felt insulted, and had there not been an autocratic government in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that produced the French Revolution, and so on.†   (source)
  • It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut short.†   (source)
  • To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child.†   (source)
  • In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent of Christ.†   (source)
  • The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the door of ill and opened the door of good.†   (source)
  • Bear this well in mind sir: the French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be absolved by the future; its result is the world made better.†   (source)
  • This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization.†   (source)
  • All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.†   (source)
  • The poor debtor class (including probably a majority of the veterans of the Revolution) had been fired by the facile doctrines of the French Revolution to demands which threatened the country with bankruptcy and anarchy, and the class of property-owners, in reaction, went far to the other extreme.†   (source)
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