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1.03 One Revolutionary War

French Revolution & Napoleon (Grey History)

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The Heroism of the French People During the Second Longest in French History

The french people saw in the young louis the sixteenth the hero they were looking for. The new monarchs knew it themselves that he was not going to be a hero. He lent successively or simultaneously on his aunt, his wife, his ministers and his courtiers. Worst of all, for an autocrat, he had not in his nature one particle of those qualities that go to make up the man of action, decision, energy, courage, wholeheartedness.

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