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Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

BY Charles Morris

2019-04-11 22:41:23

The hostility of the surrounding nations added to the revolutionary fury in France. Armies were marching to the rescue of the king, and the unfortunate monarch was seized, reviled and insulted by the mob, and incarcerated in the prison called the Tem ... Read more
The hostility of the surrounding nations added to the revolutionary fury in France. Armies were marching to the rescue of the king, and the unfortunate monarch was seized, reviled and insulted by the mob, and incarcerated in the prison called the Temple. The queen, Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, was likewise haled from the palace to the prison. In the following year, 1793, king and queen alike were taken to the guillotine and their royal heads fell into the fatal basket. The Revolution was consummated, the monarchy was at an end, France had fallen into the hands of the people, and from them it descended into the hands of a ruthless and blood-thirsty mob. Less

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File size6876.425 KB
Print pages874
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781236958594
. Charles Morris was an American journalist, novelist and author of popular historical textbooks....

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