Letters From Paris, On the Causes And Consequences of the French Revolution
The book Letters From Paris, On the Causes And Consequences of the French Revolution was written by author Somerville, William C. (William Clarke), 1790-1826 Here you can read free online of Letters From Paris, On the Causes And Consequences of the French Revolution book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Letters From Paris, On the Causes And Consequences of the French Revolution a good or bad book?
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In the Chamber of Peers, it was pro- posed ta tax the nation, or the proprietors of confiscated pro- perty, three hundred millons of francs, to indemnify the emigres for their losses. The minister of war proposed to erect a monu- ment to the French who fell at Quiberon, in arms against France, and a general of the Vandeans, says Lanjuinais, went into Brittany, to hunt up such of his old companions, as might be worthy of honorary or pecuniary rewards, for the zeal they had shown in "the furious ...close of civil butchery" The republi- can, not the Jacobin, members of the Senate, and the Institute, were eliminated out of those bodies, and in spite of the oblivion commanded by the charter, a free exhumation of all revolu- tionary votes and opinions was allowed to the royalist journals. The Jesuits were encouraged to march over the country to preach intolerance and despotism, to the annoyance, and alarm of three millions of protestants. The proud and haughty car- riage of the noblesse, both at court and in the provinces, and their afiected disdain of the new nobility, served to offend and 221 alienate many from the new government.
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