Pictures of the First French Revolution
Lamartine, A. De Excerpt from Pictures of the First French Revolution: Being Episodes From the History of the GirondistsThe American revolution, towards the close of the cen tury, hastened the development of the bold social theories advanced, by showing how successfully they might be realised, so that while the philosophers interpreted the vague, ¿oating thoughts of the people in words, the American revolution revealed them in action. The new and exciting even...