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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK I
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into the ear of his grandson.

Fenelon educated another revolution in the Duke of Burgundy.
This the king perceived when too late, and expelled the divine seduction from his palace.

But the revolutionary policy was born there; there the people read the pages of the holy archbishop: Versailles was destined to be, thanks to Louis XIV.

and Fenelon, at once the palace of despotism and the cradle of the Revolution.

Montesquieu had sounded the institutions, and analysed the laws of all people.


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