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History of Civilization in England (Volume 3 ); In 5 Vol. Henry Thomas Buckle

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Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
Number of Pages: 120 pages
Published Date: 15 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235353567
File size: 48 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. DEATH OF LOUIS XIV. REACTION AGAINST THE PROTECTIVE SPIRIT, AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. At length Louis XIV. died. When it was positively known that the old king had ceased to breathe, the people went almost mad with joy.1 The tyranny which had weighed them down was removed; and there at once followed a reaction which, for sudden violence, has no parallel in modern history.2 The great majority indemnified themselves for their forced hypocrisy by indulging in the grossest licentiousness. But among the generation then forming, there were some high-spirited youths, who had far higher views, and whose notions of liberty were not confined to the license of the gaming-house and the brothel. Devoted to the great idea of restoring to France that freedom of utterance which it had lost, they naturally turned their eyes towards the only country where the freedom was practised. Their determination to search for liberty in the place where alone it could be found, gave rise to that junction of the French and English intellects which, looking at the immense chain of its effects, is by far the most important fact in the history of the eighteenth century. 1 'L'annonce de la mort du grand roi ne produisit chez le peuple francais qu'une explosion de joie.' Sismondi, Hist, des Francais, vol. xxvii. p. 220. 'Le jour des obseques de Louis XIV, on etablit des guinguettes sur le chemin de Saint-Denis. Voltaire, que la curiosite avoit mene aux funerailles du souverain, vit dans ces guinguettes le peuple ivre de vin et de joie de la mort de Louis XIV.' Duveknet, Vie de Voltaire, p. 29: see also Condobcet, Vie de Voltaire, p llSj De Tocqueville, Regne de Louis XV, vol. i. p. 18; Duclob, Memotre vol. i. p. 221; Lemontey, Etablissem...

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