This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Development of the ruling passion.--I. Attitude of the nobles.--Their moderate resistance.--II. Workings of the popular imagination with respect to them.--The monomania of suspicion.--The nobles distrusted and treated as enemies.--Situation of a gentleman on his domain.--M. de Bussy.--III ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Development of the ruling passion.--I. Attitude of the nobles.--Their moderate resistance.--II. Workings of the popular imagination with respect to them.--The monomania of suspicion.--The nobles distrusted and treated as enemies.--Situation of a gentleman on his domain.--M. de Bussy.--III. Domiciliary visits.--The fifth jacquerie.--Burgundy and Lyonnais in 1791.-- M. de Chaponay and M. GuMin-Dumoutet.--IV. The nobl.s obliged to leave the rural districts.--They take refuge in the towns.--The dangers they incur.--The eighty-'wo gentlemen of Caen.--V. Persecutions in private life.-- VI. Conduct of "the rs.--Their self-sacrifice.--Disposition of the soldiery.-- Military outbreaks.--Spread and increase of insubordination.-- Resignation of the officers.--VII. Emigration and its causes.--The first laws ag in DEGREESt the emigrauts.--VIII. Attitude of the non-juiing priests.--How they become distiuste.l.--Illegal arrests by local administrations.--Violence or complicity of the National Guards.--Outrages by the populace.--Executive power in the so'ith.--The sixth jacquerie.--Its two causes.--Isolated outbreaks in the noith, east, and west.--General eruption in the south and in the centre.--IX. Gencial stale of opinion.--The three convoys of nonjuring priests on the Seine.--Psychological aspect of the Revolution. I. If popular passion ended in murder it was not because resistance was great or violent. On the contrary, never did an aristocracy undergo dispossession with so much patience, or employ less force in the defence of its prerogatives, or even of its property. To speak with exactness, the class in question receives blows without returning them, and when it does take up arms, it is always with the bourgeois and the National Guard, at...
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