Paris in the Revolution (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

G. Lenôtre

 
9781331845799: Paris in the Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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And then I have attempted to make myself this reporter who was wanting to the Paris Of the Revolution I have endeavoured to make my way into the clubs, to the Assembly, into the dungeons, into the houses Of prominent men, and to glean there all that history has disdained. When he criticises his book on the Girondins, Lamartine remarked that a great part Of the interest Of his work consisted in this that the men are much more on the stage in it than the things. I have, says he, personified everywhere the events in the actors that is the way to be always interesting, for the men are alive and the things are dead; the men have a heart and the things have not one; the things are abstract and the men are real.

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