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Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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spaper for gold; it was necessary to employ formalities that were equiv-alent to a suspension of payments, and it needed the victorv over thePrussians to re-establish public confidence. The emperor, as usual, threwtlie blame upon those who had acted according to his instructions, andwere victims far more than cheats ; he, however, profited by the oppor-tunity to banish certain persons belonging to the Faubourg St.-Gerniain,especially ladies, like Madame Kccamier (Plate III.) and Madamede Chevreuse, in whose salons the imperial government had been wontto be criticised by sharp tongues; for they, it was alleged, 1)V theirgossiping, liad caused the uneasiness of the public and had shaken thecredit of the bank. If the French people were disposed to consoh« themselves for theloss of freedom with their military glory, yet for those (-onquered andsubjugated it added poignancy to their lot that they were compelled evento pay the cost of their bondage. Wherever the iron arm of the PLAT E III.
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Madame Recamiei-.After a painting by Fraujois Gerard (1770-1037).Hutory oS AU Nations, Vol. XVII., page SI.

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