Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: August 15, 1904
Joseph F Smith
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(Forgotten Books, Dec. 21, 2018)
Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: August 15, 1904 From the storming of the bastile until the death of Robespierre exactly five years had elapsed and in that time one of the fairest nations of the earth had become the most desolate. Cities and castles were in ruins. The untilled fields were seared by fire, or overgrown with weeds. All of the royal family and of the nobility that had escaped the scaffold were in exile. The merchant class and the small farmers were impoverished beyond hope of relief. It seemed as though the vials of divine wrath and retribution had been poured out upon the land. Only the vilest, the most degraded rejoiced, and in their hands, apparently, lay the future. Years of this; then the reaction came. The moderate party regained control of the government, and attempts were made to bring order out of chaos, to relieve the poor. To establish a stable government, to create a newer, grander France out of the ruins of the old monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.