Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1839 edition. Extrait: ...with the real situation of the king after his return from Varennes, and the success of the efforts of the majority of the members of the constituent assembly, who were equally devoted to liberty and to monarchy, to support both against the republican faction, ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1839 edition. Extrait: ...with the real situation of the king after his return from Varennes, and the success of the efforts of the majority of the members of the constituent assembly, who were equally devoted to liberty and to monarchy, to support both against the republican faction, which had gained so much advantage at the time of the flight of the royal family, that it required at once much vigour and prudence to reinstate the king in his authority, to' restore to him all the attributes of the executive power, and to present the new constitution to his free acceptance. M. de Montmorin, therefore, faithfully fulfilled his duties towards his country and his prince, by dispelling the alarms which the court of Vienna might have conceived, and which was a very politic means to divert that court, from the hostile measures which so much pains were taken to impel it to adopt. Far from acknowledging the object and the sincerity of this communication, Brissot, in a long and perfid ious commentary, endeavoured to pervert the meaning of the plainest and the clearest expression. The happy and necessary concert of the influential members of the national assembly with the servants of the king to lead in such a crisis to an issue satisfactory to the nation and to the monarch, was represented as an act of treason, as a flagrant proof of the existence of the Austrian committee. From the gratuitous supposition of culpable proceedings, which, if they had existed, would have been covered by the amnesty, Brissot did not fail to infer, as so many new crimes, all the acts, all the negociations, by which the government had endeavoured to avert the scourge of war; he heaped the blame and responsibility for them on the headofM.de...
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Backstrip and cover edges sun-faded; covers rubbed and stained; inked notation inside front cover; rear cover nearly detached, and lacks rear free endpaper; foxing throughout; otherwise very good condition. 328p.