Excerpt from Paris in the Revolution And then I have attempted to make myself this reporter who was wanting to the Paris Of the Revolution I have endeavoured to make my way into the clubs, to the Assembly, into the dungeons, into the houses Of prominent men, and to glean there all that history has disdained. When he criticises his book on the Girondins, Lamartine remarked that a great part Of the interest Of his work consisted in this that the men are much more on the stage in it than the things. I have, says he, ...
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Excerpt from Paris in the Revolution And then I have attempted to make myself this reporter who was wanting to the Paris Of the Revolution I have endeavoured to make my way into the clubs, to the Assembly, into the dungeons, into the houses Of prominent men, and to glean there all that history has disdained. When he criticises his book on the Girondins, Lamartine remarked that a great part Of the interest Of his work consisted in this that the men are much more on the stage in it than the things. I have, says he, personified everywhere the events in the actors that is the way to be always interesting, for the men are alive and the things are dead; the men have a heart and the things have not one; the things are abstract and the men are real. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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