John Lord

The most complicated and varied of these great movements is the French Revolution, on which thousands of volumes have been written, so that it is impossible even to classify the leading events and the ever-changing features of that rapid and exciting movement. The first act of that great drama was the attempt of reformers and patriots to destroy feudalism, --with its privileges and distinctions and injustices, --by unscrupulous and wild legislation, and to give a new constitution to the Stat

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen