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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 296 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=17mm, Gew.=435gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 296 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=17mm, Gew.=435gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV The States General were called to sit, not at Paris but at Versailles, the royal residence, on April 27, 1789. So long a time had gassed since such an event occurred that even lawyers and antiquarians did not know the scale of representation. The nobles and clergy demanded a third for each order. The commons made the modest claim that twenty-four millions of them should elect as many representatives as half a million 'piiesls and nobles. Thus the orders, hitherto united in revolutionary zeal, parted company, never to heartily coalesce again. The parliaments, just restored, pronounced for equal shares. The king called another Assembly of Notables (September 6); but, tho it divided into committees and even received some reports, nothing was effected at its expiration, December 12. During January, Louis ordered that the commons should have as many representatives as the other orders united, according to the recent proceedings of Brienne's assemblies. The nobles were very sulky after this defeat. In Brittany they would not vote. In Provence a protest was formulated. Count Mirabeau, who took the popular side, was expelled from the oligarchical assembly, and at once became a tribune. This agitator, destined to such a mighty clouded fame, was already forty years of age, and noted. His father was, like himself, a republican; but in his own family he was a tyrant. Nature had meant the son to be very handsome; but in infancy he became hideously disfigured by smallpox. His head was enormous, his hair a perfect shock. He was a giant in frame, an athlete in force. His family wore always ashamed of him, and repeatedly imprisoned him by lettre de cachet for various escapades. His life had been dissolute; and he was now threatenedwith blindness. He had been a brave but insubordinate sol...<

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