[The Roman Question by Edmond About]@TWC D-Link book
The 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.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books