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On the extreme right of the renowned group is Prince Frederick-Charles, younger brother of the venerable Emperor and also a great soldier, commander of the Second Army in the Franco-German war, receiving the capitulation of Metz and so made a Field-Marshal before the Crown Prince. Here are also others of the older members of the imperial house, and across the broad field of the picture may be easily traced the three generations that center upon the august couple. The young people, especially th...e babies, are among the most interesting of all. The faces are marked by the charming simplicity and kindliness characteristic of the later Hohenzollems. 16 Digitized by Google Digitized by Google URING the closing decades of the eighteenth century the political status of France was hanging in the balance. Her ship of state was on the verge of total annihilation. A people who had never known the blessings of constitutional liberty were making desper- ate eflForts for that inestimable boon, and a monarchical family, drunken with lust for power and holding as a most sacred tenet of its creed the doctrine of the " divine right of kings," was doing its best to keep the people in serfdom, ssembly of the year 1791 proposed a new constitution.
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