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The Story of the French Revolution by Ernest Belfort Bax | Episode 1 |

The Audiobooks Podcast

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The Triumph of the Revolution in France

The whole population was, all night long, at work in the streets. How well grounded were the fears of the parisians would have been evident to any one behind the scenes. Every town becoming, henceforth, a revolutionary centre in the sense of possessing a definite revolutionary organization. There are one or two useful hints to be learned from this old and oft repeated story of the fall of the bastille. The first is of the eminent utility of popular force, if only applied at the right moment. Beforehand it would have seemed preposterous that an undisciplined mob could take a fortress and paralyze the efforts of a reaction possessed of a trained army. Another point to note is

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