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Eve of the French Revolution

By Edward Jackson Lowell

2018-10-24 17:30:13

There is perhaps no great country inhabited by civilized man more favored by nature than France. Possessing every variety of surface from the sublime mountain to the shifting sand-dune, from the loamy plain to the precipitous rock, the land is smiled ... Read more
There is perhaps no great country inhabited by civilized man more favored by nature than France. Possessing every variety of surface from the sublime mountain to the shifting sand-dune, from the loamy plain to the precipitous rock, the land is smiled upon by a climate in which the extremes of heat and cold are of rare occurrence. The grape will ripen over the greater part of the country, the orange and the olive in its southeastern corner. The deep soil of many provinces gives ample return to the labor of the husbandman. If the inhabitants of such a country are not prosperous, surely the fault lies rather with man than with nature. Less

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File size330.755 KB
Print pages308
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1409960307
Edward Jackson Lowell was a United States lawyer and historian....

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