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Excerpt from The French Revolution, Vol. 3 of 3
I. Weakness OF former governments. - Energy of the new govern~ ment. - The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin. - II. Contrast between his words and his acts - How he dissimulates his change of front. - The constitution of June, 1793. - Its promises of freedom. III. Primary Assemblies. - Proportion of Absentees. - Number of Primary assemblies.-unanimity 'of the voters - Their motives for accepting the Constitution - Pressure brought to bear on voters. Choice of Delegates - IV. They reach paris-precautions taken against them.-constraints and Seductions - V. They make their profession of Jacobin faith - Their part in the 'féte of August loth. Theirenthusiasm. - VI. Manceuvres of the Mountain. - The Jacobin Club on the eve of August nth-session of the Convention on the nth of august.-the Delegates initiate Teflon - Popular consecration of the Jacobin dictatorship - VII. Effect of this manoeuvre - Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection. - Its fundamental weakness - The mass of the population inert and distrustful. - The small number of Girondists. - Their lukewarm adherents. - Scruples of fugitive deputies and insurgent administrators.-they form no central government. - They leave military authority in the hands of the Con vention - Fatal progress of their concessions - Withdrawal of the departments one by one. - Palinode of the compromised authorities. Effect of administrative habits. - Failings and illusions of the Mod crates. - Opposite character of the Jacobins. - VIII. The last local re sistances - Political orthodoxy of the insurgent towns.-they stipulate but one condition - Reasons of State for granting this - Party argu ments against it. - IX. The rebel cities crushed. - Bordeaux. - Mar seilles. - Lyo'ns. - Toulon: - X. Destruction of the Girondist party.
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Excerpt from The French Revolution, Vol. 3 of 3 "In Egypt," says Clement of Alexandria, "the sanctuaries of the temples are shaded by curtains of golden tissue. But on going further into the interior in quest of the statue, a priest of grave aspect, advancing to meet you and chanting a hymn in the Egyptian tongue, slightly raises a veil to show you the god. And what do you behold? A crocodile, or some indigenous serpent, or other dangerous animal, the Egyptian god being a brute rolling about on a purple carpet." We need not visit Egypt or go so far back in history to encounter crocodile worship, as this can be readily found in France at the end of the last century. - Unfortunately, a hundred years is too long an interval, too far away, for an imaginative retrospect of the past. At the present time, standing where we do and regarding the horizon behind us, we see only forms which the intervening atmosphere embellishes, shimmering contours which each spectator may interpret in his own fashion; no distinct, animated figure, but merely a mass of moving points, forming and dissolving in the midst of picturesque architecture. I was anxious to have a nearer view of these vague points, and, accordingly, transported myself back to the last half of the eighteenth century, where I have been living with them for twelve years, and, like Clement of Alexandria, examining, first, the temple, and next the god. A passing glance at these is not sufficient; a step further must be taken to comprehend the theology on which this cult is founded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may
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