The world: historical and actual . -tion. Whether king, em-peror, president or com-mune has held sway inFrance during the pres-ent century, the commonlaw of justice and themechanism of public af-fairs have enjoyed astability of incalculablebenefit. Out of the wildhorrors of the Reign of Terror came fortli a bodyof laws, and a system of administration, which haveenabled France to prosper, whatever the form ofgovernment. It remains to speak more in detail of the speciallyconsjjicuous characters of the revolutionary period. At the head of this list, not to mention here Vol-taire, Rousseau and the
The world: historical and actual . -tion. Whether king, em-peror, president or com-mune has held sway inFrance during the pres-ent century, the commonlaw of justice and themechanism of public af-fairs have enjoyed astability of incalculablebenefit. Out of the wildhorrors of the Reign of Terror came fortli a bodyof laws, and a system of administration, which haveenabled France to prosper, whatever the form ofgovernment. It remains to speak more in detail of the speciallyconsjjicuous characters of the revolutionary period. At the head of this list, not to mention here Vol-taire, Rousseau and the other inspirers of the move-ment, stands Honore Gabriel Requetti Mirabeau, thefirst, greatest and wisest of its parliamentary was born in Provence in 1740. Massive, uglyand disfigured in person, his eloquence was of thevery highest order. He entered the last States-Gen-eral ever assembled as a representative of the thirdestate, and almost from the first became the leaderof the popular wing of that body. He remained the. NOTRE DAME Mirabeau has at lastfound very substantialembodiment, and theFrench revolutionistshighest vindication is thepresent republic ofFrance. A peculiar interestattaches to the melan-choly fate of Marie An-toinette, fifth daughterof Maria Theresa of Aus-tria, and wife of LouisXVI. A pure and lovelylady, she was unfortu-nate in having a veryhaughty manner andbeing a stickler for allcourt etiquette. She wasnever popular at virtues and her aus-terity combined to makeher disliked. When the revolution began she was es-pecially unpopular with courtiers and the the trials and af-flictions of her royal hus-band, and their ill-starredchildren, she developeda heroism which hasmade her an object ofadoration in the templeof posthumous shared the calam-ities of the Bourbons in a way to ieflect highhonor upon the house of the Hapsburgs. Afterlong imprisonment she was brought before the Rev-olutionary Tribunal October 13, 1793, w
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