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

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The Great Upheaval of 1788

From the beginning of the century, notably throughout the reign of louis the fifteenth, there was ever and anon, the consciousness of a change as imminent. Miraba, alone, of all who had prepared the great crisis lived to see its beginning. But even he succumbed in 17 91, a year and a half before the actual fall of the monarchy. Few of these men saw more than a freethinking aristocracy and literary class of the movement below they recked. Little scarcely, perhaps, that there was such a movement.

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