A review of some late publications respecting the French Revolution of 1848 [microform]

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by  Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857

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Ifearts and hands in one great cause.
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PREFACE.
In the moral economy of Europe, France
is the disturbing element. It is the centre
of the divergent, as England seems to be of
the convergingforces. It is the Etna, whose
primal violence now ravages a venerable
alluvion and now elevates a new continent
rich in the spoils of uncultivated time.
As the centre of Europe, France is al-
ways its most commanding object. Its
central position with an extensive maritime
and strong landward frontier ;its vast, cohe-
sive, and homogeneous population, differing
less than that of any nation of like grandeur
on the earth, in law, and language, and
traditions all united by a national spirit as
;
intense as the world ever witnessed, And a
centralisation, since the time of Richelieu
and Mazarine, more complete than any which
has been known since the fall of the
Western Roman Empire ; all these, united
with a warlike spirit and a noble literature,
make France, on the continent, the pivot of
the politics ofEurope asEndand is,where-
;
ever the ocean flows beyond it. It was not
without reason that the great Frederic of
Prussia said that, if he was the King of
France, not a gun should be fired in Europe
without his permission.
Of the fast French Revolution we have
now ample details, and secret memoirs have
developed much that was strange,vindicated
many fair fames, extenuated some crimes,
and illustrated some virtues. Men are not
TV
altogether so bad as calumny makes them
We
appear. are now beginning to discern
dimly the truth of the last French Revolu-
tion, through the mists of the causing and
We
attendant passions. have had the
statements of ardent partisans, of interested
advocates. Louis Blanc, M. Lamartine
—
all who raised the whirl-wind or who
strived successfully or unsuccessfully to
direct the storm, have been heard. Every
petty mover of sedition has had his feuilU"
toUy and the mutual destruction which follow-
ed the flight of the governing power, has
left those but the sole memorials of their
reign.
The work which follows, however unpre-
tending in length, is of a different order.
It is a contribution to history, not to party,
nor to personal extenuation. It is under-
stood to be from the pen of an eminent
critic and historian, who has for years filled
a large space in the public eye, Mr. John
W.
Croker, and that he has been aided by
thp ex-KiLg LouisPhilippe, and other mem-
bers of the illustrious House ofOrleans in the
To
particular facts. that house no attempt
has ever yetbeen made to do justice, though
several members of it exhibited personal
qualifies of a very high order, and history
scarcely records an instance of more intre-
pid courage, and devotion to the interests of
her child, than was displayed in the conduct
of the mother of the Count of Paris.
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