The Idler in France a Sequel to the Idler in Italy
The Idler in France a Sequel to the Idler in Italy
Marguerite Gardiner
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Much as I deplore some of the consequences of the Revolution in France, and the atrocities by which it was stained, it is impossible not to admit the great and salutary change effected in the habits and feelings of the people since that event. Who can live on terms of in- timacv with the French, without beino^ struck bv the difference between those of our time, and those of whom we read previously to that epoch? The system of education is totally different. The habits of domestic life are wholl...y changed. The relations between hus- band and wife, and parents and childi'cn, have 336 THE IDLER IN FRANCE. assumed another character, by which the bonds of affection and mutual dependances are drawn more closely together ; and home, sweet home, the focus of domestic love, said to have been once an unknown blessing, at least among the haute noblesse, is now endeared by the discharge of reciprocal duties and warm sym- pathies. It is impossible to doubt but that the Revo- lution of 1789, and the terrible scenes in the reign of terror w^hich followed it, operated in producing the change to which I have re- ferred.
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