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Title: Beacon Lights of History, Volume IX
Author: John Lord
Release Date: January 8, 2004 [eBook #10640]
Language: English
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LORD'S LECTURES
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IX
EUROPEAN STATESMEN.
BY JOHN LORD, LL.D.,
AUTHOR OF "THE OLD ROMAN WORLD," "MODERN EUROPE," ETC., ETC.
CONTENTS.
MIRABEAU.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
First act of the Revolution Remote causes Louis XVI Derangement of finances Assembly of notables Mirabeau; his writings and extraordinary eloquence Assembly of States-General Usurpation of the Third Estate Mirabeau's ascendency Paralysis of government General disturbances; fall of the Bastille Extraordinary reforms by the National Assembly Mirabeau's conservatism Talleyrand, and confiscation of Church property Death of Mirabeau; his characteristics Revolutionary violence; the clubs The Jacobin orators The King arrested The King tried, condemned, and executed The Reign of Terror Robespierre, Marat, Danton