One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war; . d other prominent members of theAssembly filled the remaining cabinet posts. The legislature wasdissolved, the Palais de Bourbon was closed, and the EmpressEugenie quitted the Tuileries and made her escape with a fewattendants to Belgium, whence she sought a refuge in Louis Napoleon made his way to Italy, and the swarm ofcourtiers scattered in all directions; some faithful followers ofthe deposed monarch seeking the castle of Wilhelmshohe, wherethe unhappy Louis Napoleon occupi
One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war; . d other prominent members of theAssembly filled the remaining cabinet posts. The legislature wasdissolved, the Palais de Bourbon was closed, and the EmpressEugenie quitted the Tuileries and made her escape with a fewattendants to Belgium, whence she sought a refuge in Louis Napoleon made his way to Italy, and the swarm ofcourtiers scattered in all directions; some faithful followers ofthe deposed monarch seeking the castle of Wilhelmshohe, wherethe unhappy Louis Napoleon occupied as a prison the same beauti-ful palace and park in which his uncle Jerome Bonaparte hadonce passed six years in a life of pleasure. The second FrenchEmpire was at an end; the third French Republic had begun—one that had to pass through many changes and escape many dan-gers before it would be firmly established. Not a foots breadth of our country nor a stone of our for-tresses shall be surrendered, was Jules Favres defiant proclama-tion to the invaders, and the remainder of the soldiers in the.
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