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“If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.”
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.”
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the revolution had yet to occur. Louis XVI was still king, and the Assembly was negotiating a new constitutional arrangement for the monarchy, not so different from Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688.”
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
― A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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