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The Roman Question, by Edmond About,
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Title: The Roman Question
Author: Edmond About
Release Date: December 19, 2004 [eBook #14381]
Language: English
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THE ROMAN QUESTION
by
E. ABOUT
Translated From The French By H. C. Coape
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway
1859
PREFACE
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I travelled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
My first impressions, noted down from day to day without any especial object, appeared, with some necessary modifications, in the Moniteur Universel. These notes, truthful, somewhat unconnected, and so thoroughly impartial, that it would be easy to discover in them contradictions and inconsistencies, I was obliged to discontinue, in consequence of the violent outcry of the Pontifical Government. I did more. I threw them in the fire, and wrote a book instead. The present volume is the result of a year's ref