“The French Revolution was a vast act of political destruction at the heart of previous society: let us fear lest it creates a more fatal act of destruction, let us fear moral destruction hand in hand with that Revolution’s evils.”
François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’Outre-tombe, tr. A.S. Kline, Bk.XLII:8:1, published online by A.S. Kline.
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François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’Outre-tombe, tr. A.S. Kline, Bk.XLII:8:1, published online by A.S. Kline.
5 comments:
Did Chateaubriand have a stake in the outcome?
I suppose his kind did. It is almost unimaginable that nowadays there could be a diplomat and statesman quite as quixotic as Chateaubriand.
Where I grew up, the beaches were a mud-sand mixture, and the rugby pitches mud-sheep droppings.
I seem to have commented awry.
Most certainly.
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