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THE STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 



in THE HISTORIANS' HISTORY OF THE WORLD 



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HE proper study of mankind is history. Without it you are unenlightened. But how 



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 You do not know the elements of world-history without which you are ungrounded and 

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We will send you Volume XII. on France from 1715 to 1815, the period of the Revolu- 

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Its 420,000 words include the best writings of 136 great or valuable authorities on French 

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You start with a special essay by Professor Alfred Rambaud, the first living historian of 

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 "Mississippi Bubble " and "frenzied finance " schemes, described by P. E. Levasseur. The Due 

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Then the Revolution. — " Night and Orcus burst forth. ... A world destroyed and en- 

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 exhaustive, scientific, detailed, consecutive, coherent. M. Thiers, the leading French Statesman 

 of the nineteenth century, writes of the Constituent Assembly and how poor Louis XVI. toyed 

 with the Revolution, losing his own head, and how many others ! In words of immortal vivid- 

 ness Thomas Carlyle shows us the Bastile falling. 



You live through the Reign of Terror, the guillotine orgies, noyades and fusillade that 

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 pierre dragged with a broken jaw to the guillotine is the climax of the Terror. 



" A whiff of grapeshot " and Napoleon holds the stage. His victories from Rivoli to Fried- 

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