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The trouble with this book is that I want to highlight the entire book! Davies quotes several of the authors of the French Revolution I have already read and I recognize his information. It's what makes the whole revolution such a terrible tragedy, so much destruction of what was Good, Beautiful and True, most of which is irrecoverable and the country never to recover its former glory.
— Jul 25, 2025 10:00AM
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booklady
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There was no level of brutality to which the infernal columns did not descend. Orders were given to conserve powder by killing with the saber rather than the gun. Women were raped as a matter of routine; children were butchered and their bodies mutilated. Soldiers would tear unborn babies from the wombs of their mothers and carry them in triumph, still living, on the points of their bayonets.
— Jul 28, 2025 10:53AM
booklady
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In 1789, France was the most populous and prosperous nation in Europe, and Paris was its largest city, with a population of 650,000, the best-educated and most excitable in Europe. Rioting was an established Parisian tradition. French peasants were better off than any of their counterparts in continental Europe, except, perhaps, those of northern Italy.
— Jul 25, 2025 09:53AM
booklady
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In 1789, France was the most populous and prosperous nation in Europe, and Paris was its largest city, with a population of 650,000, the best-educated and most excitable in Europe. Rioting was an established Parisian tradition. French peasants were better off than any of their counterparts in continental Europe, except, perhaps, those of northern Italy.
— Jul 23, 2025 05:23AM
