. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. iot;. < orday, who killed Marat, shoulhave been regarded as a heroine, .said Frank Gray. I cannot undeid how Frenchmen, who seem t be tin- most polite-, obliging, kin<hearted, people in the world, could have been led to do tin- blood Is of the Reign of Terror. ?• That is b vou have read history too much without thought In reading history alw ba< k to the causes of things. Read I 11 as forward. .Ml the great palaces in France you havbuilt by the money of an overtaxed people who had mpolitical rights. They were the glitte
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. iot;. < orday, who killed Marat, shoulhave been regarded as a heroine, .said Frank Gray. I cannot undeid how Frenchmen, who seem t be tin- most polite-, obliging, kin<hearted, people in the world, could have been led to do tin- blood Is of the Reign of Terror. ?• That is b vou have read history too much without thought In reading history alw ba< k to the causes of things. Read I 11 as forward. .Ml the great palaces in France you havbuilt by the money of an overtaxed people who had mpolitical rights. They were the glittering abodes of immorality. \and again Frai - governed by wicked women who became I of the- king. The Huguenots, who were tin sincerely religionI were compelled to leave the nation. Think of hundred thousand people going away from their native countrat the unrestrained edi< t of one bad man. Do yon wonder the peoplFrance desired I titution for their protection ? The nobler oders of the Catholic Church, the Jansenists and Fort Royalists as the. FENELON AND THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY. BRITTANY. 297 were called, were also suppressed. The Church became immoral,tyrannical, and almost wholly corrupt, an enemy to the rights of thepeople. The reaction against such a church, which violated all the pre-cepts of the Gospel, was infidelity. During the whole of the reign of Louis XV. the cloud of Revolu-tion was ora-therins:. Louis saw it. but he was so onven over to sensual-ity that it little troubled him. These things will last as long as Ishall, he said. Apres nous le deluge (after us the deluge). He waswholly governed, and the nation ruled, by Madame de Pompadour, acorrupt and worthless woman, who made and dismissed ministers ofState and cardinals, declared war and dictated terms of peace. Shedeclared that even her lap-dog was weary of the fawnings of you surprised that Frenchmen should rise against such a state ofthings as this ? Was not Louis XV. educated by Fenelon, who
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