Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . ch seized certain provinces in 1772. 284. In 1792 another partition was made by Russia and Prussia only, and in 1795 Poland was destroyed End of Poland. , . ? • j j . ^- j v altogether as an independent nation, and itsremaining territory was divided among its three neighbors. Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time !Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime. Wicked as was this assassination of a nation, the accessionof territory to Paissia was of
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . ch seized certain provinces in 1772. 284. In 1792 another partition was made by Russia and Prussia only, and in 1795 Poland was destroyed End of Poland. , . ? • j j . ^- j v altogether as an independent nation, and itsremaining territory was divided among its three neighbors. Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time !Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime. Wicked as was this assassination of a nation, the accessionof territory to Paissia was of immense importance to theempire, and brought that nation into the middle of thecontinent and into the thick of European affairs. 285. Catherine II. died in 1796. She was succeeded byCatherines her SOU Paul; but he was an eccentric, half-successors, crazy creature, and when he was murdered, in1801, his son Alexander I. came to the throne. This Alex-ander I. was the uncle of Alexander II., murdered by Nihilistsin 1881, who was succeeded by his son Alexander III., thepresent Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 409. FRENCH REVOLUTION. 286. After me the deluge (Apres mot le dkluge), sighedLouis XV. to his courtiers as he lay on his Remark ofdeath-bed in the year 1774, which was the very ^^^ ^^- .year of the meeting of our First Continental deluge came, — that dreadful deluge of fire and bloodknown in history as the French Revolution. We arenow to learn about the causes, the leading facts, and theresults of this tremendous explosion. 287. The student will remember that the close of thereign of Louis XIV. (1715) saw France in an France andexhausted and a demoralized condition. Un- ^°^^ ^^•der his successor, Louis XV. (1715-1774), things wentfrom bad to worse. The court, ruled by the painted favor-ites of the licentious king, Pompadour and Du Barri, ex-hausted every shape of costly debauchery. The last sou oftaxation was
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