Danton and Other Verse (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Bably no student of French history believes that now. But did he try to stop them? Did he disapprove of them? The more the subject is investigated, the more certain it seems that he did; that he was quite powerless to repress them by force, offhand; that if he had gone, as a man of martyr-spirit like General Gordon might have gone, with a walking-stick in his hand to the prisons, he would probably have lost his life there as he eventually did in the cause of mercy, instead of living to devise measures, without which far more horrible massacres must have ensued. He himself spoke of the 'bloody days mourned by all good citizens,' 'the terrible events no human power was in condition to control,' much as Roland did when he said 'the Executive was unable either to foresee or prevent them.' Had Roland's party been less jealous of him they would never have occurred. Those who are incredulous, remem.

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