This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...which he exercised as King of France, the lawfulness of which was not contestable on the same principle which denied him the right of taxation. When the Assembly of the States General met at Versailles, in May, 1789, there was but a shadow of the Royal authority left. They felt that the power of the Nation was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...which he exercised as King of France, the lawfulness of which was not contestable on the same principle which denied him the right of taxation. When the Assembly of the States General met at Versailles, in May, 1789, there was but a shadow of the Royal authority left. They felt that the power of the Nation was in their hands, and they were not sparing in the use of it. The Representatives of the Third Estate, double in numbers to those of the Clergy and the Nobility, constituted themselves a National Assembly, and, as a signal for the demolition of all privileged orders, refused to deliberate in separate Chambers, and thus compelled the Representatives of the Clergy and Nobility to merge their separate existence in the general mass of the popular representation. Thus the edifice of society was to be reconstructed in France as it had been in America. The King made a feeble attempt to overawe the Assembly, by calling regiments of troops to Versailles, and surrounding with them the hall of their meeting. But there was defection in the army itself, and even the person of the King soon ceased to be at his own disposal. On the llth of July, 1789, in the midst of the fermentation which had succeeded the fall of the Monarchy, and while the Assembly "was surrounded by armed soldiers, Lafayette presented to them his Declaration of Rights--the first declaration of human rights ever proclaimed in Europe. It was adopted, and became the basis of that which the Assembly promulgated with their Const'tution. It was in this hemisphere, and in our own country, that all its principles had been imbibed. At the very moment when the Declaration was presented, the convulsive struggle between the expiring Monarchy and the new-born but portentous anarchy of the Parisian...
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Book. Octavo (8vo). 94 pages of text; 21.5cm; disbound; author U.S. president 1825-29; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette 1757-1834; served U. S. Army, French army; previous owner marks.
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Very Good+ First Printing. Original wraps which have been hardbound in blue cloth over boards with gilt spine titles. VG+. Bound without original blue paper wraps; 94 pp. with Appendix; some usual aging and foxing throughout; slight rubbing to blue cloth extremities, else a very good or better copy of this important work.