George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe Strangford
The book Historic Fancies was written by author George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe Strangford Here you can read free online of Historic Fancies book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Historic Fancies a good or bad book?
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One man alone maintained the least controul 248 MARAT. over his excesses. He hated, feared, abused, but was ruled by, Robespierre. The blind and vague caprices of the one, required to be led by the methodical, direct, determinate intellect of the other. Danton, indeed, shortly before his death, again renewed his intimacy with him, but it was rather as a protege than a patron. But the end of Marat was at hand. On the 13th of July, (a melancholy anniversary in French History, for a far other reas...on, ) in 1793, Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday. Divine honours were paid to his memory. Prayers were addressed to him. The most blasphemous analogies were drawn of his sufferings. Altars were raised, and that nothing might be wanting to combine the most solemn portions of the Pagan system and the Christian Revelation, a host of victims was immolated in his honour. Nor was this public adoration merely ephemeral ; months afterwards his ashes were installed in the Pantheon in the place of those of Mirabeau !
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