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Excerpt from The Prison Life of Marie Antoinette and Her Children, the Dauphin and the Duchesse D'angouleme
The qualities of the great French nation have given a vaster and more definite form to the existing struggle between corruption and life, between truth and error, wisdom and folly, than is evident elsewhere. Its elasticity has hitherto restored it, after seasons of decadence, to fresh splendour. English invasion, Valois disgrace, and religious dissensions, brought it low, but only for renewed progress and the larger in4 The Prison Life of Marie Antoinette.
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