The Growth of the French Nation

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Macmmillan, 1896 - 350 páginas
 

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Página 275 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence...
Página 18 - And all this transformation was accomplished not as the result of a determined effort on the part of the Romans, but because the Gauls found it in every case for their own interests to make the change.
Página 280 - ... that in the language of the Declaration " the people may always have before its eyes the fundamental pillars of its liberty and strength, and the authorities the standard of their duties, and the legislator the object of his problem." The Constitution was placed " under the guarantee of all the virtues...
Página 326 - ... etat of December, 1851, and the proclamation of the Empire a year later...
Página 221 - It was the English Revolution of 1688, which drove James II. from the throne...
Página 154 - The war which followed is of interest chiefly for the sack of Rome in 1527 by the army of Charles V., composed largely of German Protestants, in which the Rome of art and of the monuments of antiquity suffered severely.
Página 1 - The present work is a proof of how much that Is new and striking may be said upon a trite subject. Many books have been written...
Página 307 - CONSULS. provisional government with the title of Consuls, and joined commissioners with them to revise the constitution. The new constitution was very quickly constructed, and was accepted by the people in a general election on the i4th of December, 1799. It was a frank step backward toward a strong executive, for though the executive responsibility was laid upon three consuls, the real power was in the hands of the First Consul, Bonaparte, who was Bonaparte.
Página 297 - Napoleon — and in the adoption of a uniform system of weights and measures — the metric system. The new government organized itself immediately on the dissolution of the Convention at the end of October, The govern. 1795. The directors would have been glad to bring the gf£tct°0fI!£e foreign war entirely to an end, but England and Austria The "Organizer ofVictory.
Página 18 - Romanization. ... schools of Gaul were famous throughout the empire, and boys attended them from the other provinces to learn the art of composition and expression, that is, to learn the language of the conquerors from the conquered ! History has not many cases of this sort to record. Until toward the last days of the empire the Roman rule was liberal. It interfered but little in local affairs, and it made no direct attack upon any features of the native civilization except such as seemed to be dangerous...

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