Fortescue, "In leges Angliae," and" "The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy" (end of the fifteenth century), on the difference at this date between the English and the French government .-- The same decision is found in the dispatches of the Venetian ambassadors of this date: "In France everything is based on the will of the king.

Nobody, whatever might be his conscientious scruples, would dare express an opinion opposed to his.

The French respect their king to such an extent that they would not only sacrifice their property for him, but again their souls." (Janssen, "L'Allemagne a la fin du moyen age.

I.484.)--As to the passage of the monarchical to the democratic idea, we see it plainly in the following quotations from Restif de la Bretonne: "I entertained no doubt that the king could legally oblige any man to give me his wife or his daughter, and everybody in my village (Sacy in Burgundy) thought so too." ("Monsieur Nicolas," I., 443.)--In relation to the September massacres: "No, I do not pity them, those fanatical priests...

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