[The Roman Question by Edmond About]@TWC D-Link bookThe Roman Question CHAPTER XIII 10/11
Blood flows, and the Pope washes his hands of it.
He did not sign the warrants.
Every now and then the Austrians bring him a man they have shot, just as a gamekeeper brings his master a fox he has killed in the preserves. Perhaps I shall be told that this government of priests is not responsible for the crimes committed in its service. We French have also experienced the scourge of a foreign occupation. For some years soldiers who spoke not our language were encamped in our departments.
The king who had been forced upon us was neither a great man nor a man of energy, nor even a very good man; and he had left a portion of his dignity in the enemy's baggage-waggons.
But certain it is that, in 1817, Louis XVIII.
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