Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
As a further evidence of the introduction of the new order, the National Assembly drew up a Declaration Of the Rights Of Man which Louis XVI hesitated to ratify. Consequently the Paris mob marched out to Versailles and threatened the king so vehemently that he and Marie Antoinette and the little Dauphin were forced to return to the Palace of the Tuileries in Paris, virtually as prison ers. Meanwhile the National Assembly was at work on a constitution which would reform the evils of the old régime, and after two years' work, in 1791, the first French Republic was proclaimed.
This permanent, peaceful revolution was followed by a bloody one known as the Reign of Terror. The horrors of this period are graphically described in A Tale of Two Cities.
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