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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...sociated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electr... ...n the morning, they arrive. Cardinal Grand-Almoner Roche-Aymon is here, in pontificals, with his pyxes and his tools; he ap- proaches the royal pillow... ... it not as if Wisdom herself were henceforth to have seat and voice in the Council of Kings? Turgot has taken office with the noblest plainness of spe... ...generation; their voice only an inarticulate cry: spokesman, in the King’s Council, in the world’s forum, they have none that finds cre- dence. At rar... ...g with laces, waving with plumes; the Clergy in rochet, alb, or other best pontificalibus: lastly comes the King himself, and King’s Household, also i... ...nceforth by a loyal Eighteen hundred,—whom Contrivance, under various pre- texts, may gradually swell to Six thousand; who will hinder no Journey to S... ...and even eternity, has been forgot- ten. Biennial Parliament, to be called Legislative, Assemblee Legislative; with Seven Hundred and Forty-five Membe... ... Then as to changes in the Constitution itself? This, impos- sible for any Legislative, or common biennial Parliament, and possible solely for some re...

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