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“Woe to the privileged order, for privileges will cease, but the People are eternal.”
-- Mirabeau
Monk came upon this charming thought in his Schama reading. We are still shy of the French Revolution, but it is 1789 and events are becoming focused. We, of course, know that the French Revolution proved to be a rather tragic affair, more misguided than enlightened. And, earlier in the book, Mr. Schama expresses the romantic haplessness:
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“Woe to the privileged order, for privileges will cease, but the People are eternal.”
-- Mirabeau
Monk came upon this charming thought in his Schama reading. We are still shy of the French Revolution, but it is 1789 and events are becoming focused. We, of course, know that the French Revolution proved to be a rather tragic affair, more misguided than enlightened. And, earlier in the book, Mr. Schama expresses the romantic haplessness:
This was, of course, to ask for the impossible. But asking for the impossible is one good definition of a revolution.
