Women of Versailles : the Court of Louis Xiv
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The revolutionary school whose disciples they are has already done much harm. It has sapped the foundations of the edifice ; it has aided to destroy that respect which is indis- pensable to well-organized societies ; it has converted books into libels, criticisms into invectives, portraits into caricatures ; it has conspired with that essen- tiall}'- false literature known as the historical novel, to travesty persons and things and spread abroad a mass of exaggerations and fables which confuse ...facts and ideas and reverse the conceptions of good sense and justice. One of the men whom this school holds 183 184 THE WOMEN OF VERSAILLES most ill horror is Louis XIV., because lie was the representative or, better, the living symbol of the principle of authority. It is tired of hearing him called the Great, like that Athenian who was weary of hearing Aristides called the Just. It has fancied it would extinguish the vojixl sun by breathing on it.
An old potentate kept in leading strings by a bigoted and intriguing old woman, — such is the image it would delineate, the characteristics it Avishes to hand down to posterity as those of him who to his last hour, his latest breath, remained what he had been throughout his life — the very type of royalty, the sovereign by excellence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The revolutionary school whose disciples they are has already done much harm. It has sapped the foundations of the edifice ; it has aided to destroy that respect which is indis- pensable to well-organized societies ; it has converted books into libels, criticisms into invectives, portraits into caricatures ; it has conspired with that essen- tiall}'- false literature known as the historical novel, to travesty persons and things and spread abroad a mass of exaggerations and fables which confuse ...facts and ideas and reverse the conceptions of good sense and justice. One of the men whom this school holds 183 184 THE WOMEN OF VERSAILLES most ill horror is Louis XIV., because lie was the representative or, better, the living symbol of the principle of authority. It is tired of hearing him called the Great, like that Athenian who was weary of hearing Aristides called the Just. It has fancied it would extinguish the vojixl sun by breathing on it.
An old potentate kept in leading strings by a bigoted and intriguing old woman, — such is the image it would delineate, the characteristics it Avishes to hand down to posterity as those of him who to his last hour, his latest breath, remained what he had been throughout his life — the very type of royalty, the sovereign by excellence.
What to read after Women of Versailles : the Court of Louis Xiv?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Imbert De Saint-Amand, [arthur Léon] Baron, 1834-1900 [from Old Catalog] to read onlineMoreLess
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