"Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen in hand, was making out the bill for the tra…"

"The Jacobin push to restart the French calendar with Year Zero was intended to create a new France, free of the vesti…"

"The happy revolution which we have just brought to a glorious conclusion under the visible auspices of God has placed…"

"Much in these revolutionary activities [in Brabant] brings to mind the Patriot troubles in the Dutch Republic. As in …"

"They informed Joseph II that his measures might be appropriate for "peoples in the infancy of civilization" such as t…"

"Since the outbreak of the French Revolution, the world has been moving with ever increasing speed towards a new confl…"

"You can lock the door upon them, but they burst open their shaky lattices and call out over the house-tops so that me…"