Category: History - European
At the great Exhibition of 1889 I visited, in company with some friends, the reproduction of the Bastille, calculated to give all who saw it--and the whole world must have seen it--an entirely false impression.
At the great Exhibition of 1889 I visited, in company with some friends, the reproduction of the Bastille, calculated to give all who saw it--and the whole world must have seen...
3. CHAPTER I."The Bastille," wrote Sainte-Foix, "is a castle which, without being strong, is one of the most formidable in Europe, and about it I shall say nothing." "Silence is safer than s...
4. CHAPTER II.Julius Cæsar describes a structure three stories high which his legionaries used rapidly to erect in front of towns they were besieging. Such was the remote origin of the "basti...
5. CHAPTER III.Having sketched rapidly and with bold strokes the outlines of the history of the Bastille from its foundation to its fall, we intend to show how the rule to which prisoners in t...
6. CHAPTER IV.For two centuries no question has excited public opinion more than that of the Man in the Iron Mask. The books written on the subject would fill a library. People despaired of e...
7. CHAPTER V.Speaking of men of letters in France under the _ancien régime_, Michelet calls them "the martyrs of thought"; he adds: "The world thinks, France speaks. And that is precisely wh...
8. CHAPTER VI.Few historical figures have taken a higher place in the popular imagination than Masers de Latude. That celebrated prisoner seems to have accumulated in his life of suffering al...
9. CHAPTER VII.In the remarkable book entitled _Paris during the Revolution_, M. Adolphe Schmidt writes: "All the purely revolutionary events, the events of the Fourteenth of July, of October...