World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
François Guizot Madame de Witt · English
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World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
François Guizot Madame de Witt · English
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CHAPTER VII. THE CONSULATE (1799-1804). For more than ten years, amid unheard of shocks and sufferings, France had been seeking for a free and regular government, that might assure to her the new rights which had only been gained through tribulation. She had overthrown the Monarchy and attempted a Republic; she had accepted and rejected three constitutions, all the while struggling single-handed with Europe, leagued against her. She had undergone the violence of the Reign of Terror,
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