Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 394
mens minds. The masses were stillsincerely attached to the Catholic faith ; the middle-classeshailed with relief the advent of the strong man who provedhimself able to crush faction ; the peasants were won by achampion of the Revolution who made impossible the returnof the evil days of the ancien… … NAPOLEON 269 restored the hierarchy. Moreover, the brilliancy ofNapoleons military genius was balanced by an all-embracingpolitical sagacity. The chief administrative decrees of theConvention, especially those relating to education and thecivil and penal codes, were welded into form by…
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