Friedrich Gentz An Opponent of the French Revolution And Napoleon
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When this stage was reached can not be said definitely. All indications, however, point to the events of the 1. 0th to 13th of August, 1792, as those which brought about the climax; the bloody scenes of the 2nd to 7th of September, and the remainder of that "ever horrible year", 1792, only made Gentz's atti- tude a permanent one. - 4 "The hist and most terrible period of the French Revolution", he says in 1794, . . . "be- gan with the horrors of the 10th of August. " This opinion was quite corr...ect in so far as those days did mark the "Weick, II, 301, 159. Translation of Mallet du Pan, 45, note, 74, note, 97, note, 142, note. 60 FRIEDRICH GEXTZ [546 beginning of what Gentz calls "the systematic overthrow of all social conditions". 25 It was also more or less the opinion of the many German observers of the events bej^ond the Rhine who after having sympathized with the Revolu- tion finally turned against it. There were, according to Gentz's own testimony, in Germany people professing democracy up to the 5th of October, 1780, to the opening of the Legislative Assembly, to the 10th of August, 1792, to the execution of the King and so on; 26 for the majority of the German democrats, however, this 10th of August marked the turning point in their attitude toward the Revolution.
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