The French Revolution a Political History 1789 1804 volume 1
The French Revolution a Political History 1789 1804 volume 1
F a Franois Alphonse Aulard
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. But truly, to-day, when in two years our horizon has been so prodigiously enlarged, how can any one still have the impudence to say that we ought to lay the foundations of a free Constitution on principles which were dictated under the shadow and in the fear of despotism ? How should men bent under the yoke of an all-pervading oppression dare to express themselves with perfect candour ? How should they have dared an open attack on the abuses of the feudal system at a time when one of the elec...tors of a Norman bailiwick was proceeded against by order of the Parliament of Rouen, because, in a primary assembly, he had been blasphemously inspired to speak certain truths concerning des ci-devant our nobles ?" (Chapter XXXII, March 28, 1791, p. 83. ) ' The people of Paris had then no more idea of dethroning the King than they had on July 14. They wished solely to take him to Paris, in order to have him under their eyes, and in the hope that with better counsellors he might be a better King.
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