The Despatches of Earl Gower, English Ambassador at Paris from June 1790 to August 1792: To which are Added the Despatches of Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Monro, and the Diary of Viscount Palmerston in France During July and August 1791, Now Published for the First Time |
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... authorities on the French Revolution , M. Henri Taine and M. Albert Sorel , that Lord Gower's despatches had been read by competent Frenchmen and had been declared to be of high value ; and that their publication would be an important ...
... authorities on the French Revolution , M. Henri Taine and M. Albert Sorel , that Lord Gower's despatches had been read by competent Frenchmen and had been declared to be of high value ; and that their publication would be an important ...
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... ; it was a formal renunciation of obedience to the authority of the king . Louis XVI . instead of sternly reestablishing his supremacy , went the The next day to the Assembly , threw himself upon its INTRODUCTION XV-Xxxviii.
... ; it was a formal renunciation of obedience to the authority of the king . Louis XVI . instead of sternly reestablishing his supremacy , went the The next day to the Assembly , threw himself upon its INTRODUCTION XV-Xxxviii.
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... authority was already doomed , although few had declared themselves republicans . The crea- tion of departments in place of the ancient provinces upset the administration of the old régime . The election of the judges and of the clergy ...
... authority was already doomed , although few had declared themselves republicans . The crea- tion of departments in place of the ancient provinces upset the administration of the old régime . The election of the judges and of the clergy ...
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... authority of Elliot , who had himself so much to do with it . In November Lord Gower states that the prospect of peace has damped the spirit of the aristocrats , but pleased the rest of the nation . A letter of December 3 , 1790 ...
... authority of Elliot , who had himself so much to do with it . In November Lord Gower states that the prospect of peace has damped the spirit of the aristocrats , but pleased the rest of the nation . A letter of December 3 , 1790 ...
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... authority , and to make him merely the expression of the national will ; and the Jacobins who maintained the ... authorities . The fédérés arrive gradually ( ib . ) , their number is not so great as was expected , but the Jacobins ...
... authority , and to make him merely the expression of the national will ; and the Jacobins who maintained the ... authorities . The fédérés arrive gradually ( ib . ) , their number is not so great as was expected , but the Jacobins ...
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