. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. s wherever the French armswent, seemed the proclamation of an intention of spreading revolutionary principles through all Europe. The execu-tion of Louis drove every brother monarch into a frenzy;practically every other Christian state in Europe declared warupon France. It appeared inevitable that she should becrushed by a vast coalition. She was assailed on every coast,on every border at once. But in all human annals there is no finer example of patrioticself-sacrifice than that which the French now displayed. Thegrim and resol
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. s wherever the French armswent, seemed the proclamation of an intention of spreading revolutionary principles through all Europe. The execu-tion of Louis drove every brother monarch into a frenzy;practically every other Christian state in Europe declared warupon France. It appeared inevitable that she should becrushed by a vast coalition. She was assailed on every coast,on every border at once. But in all human annals there is no finer example of patrioticself-sacrifice than that which the French now displayed. Thegrim and resolute men who had seized the Paris Governmentdeveloped in this crisis marvelous efficiency. A remorselessconscription swept the youth of France into the armies; fac- 1 The English feared that the great port of Antwerp in French hands wouldbe a standing menace to their maritime supremacy. EUROPE IN 1789. Lands added to Prance by theTreaty of Basel.(What is marked Belgium was part of theAustrian Netherlands in 1789, and , The United Netherlands.).
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