Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... a new conspiracy, and the Convention, terror-stricken, ordered the execution of the Dantonists. They died, to the number of fifteen, under the guillotine (5th April). A few days later, on the pretext of this same conspiracy, the remainder of the two parties of the Hebertists and Dantonists were led to the scaffold, including Chaumette, Gobel, Bishop of Paris, and the widows of Hebert and Desmoulins. The last remnants of opposition swept away, the dictatorship of Terror remained master of the field, and swayed the destinies of France with a power hitherto possessed by no soyereign. Every one not sharing its opinions was humbled to the dust; and it could henceforth give its undivided attention to the salvation of the country, and to the only means by which, in the eyes of posterity, it has redeemed its sanguinary rule. The campaign of 1794 had begun; a campaign that completed the conquering attitude which for the next twenty years France assumed face to face with the whole of Europe. There were but two countries left that could still profit by war, the very countries which owed their grandeur to conquest, and for this reason perhaps the two most declared foes to the Revolution, England and Eussia. The latter had undertaken to vanquish Poland, where the democratic principles, the country's dismembering notwithstanding, were in full sway, and concentrating all their hopes in a last throw--an insurrection (March). England found herself alone against France; Prussia took Pitt's money but did nothing, Spain refused to act, for fear of being duped by her allies; Holland, Piedmont, and Austria were rather tired of their continual defeats, but Pitt lavished all his gold and genius to rekindle a war which should save England's aristocracy, and give her the empire of...
