Sleep Story 228 – Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
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The Queen of France and Her Disappointment
The diplomatic revolution of the eighteenth century sprang, like every other major thing in modern history, from the religious schism of the sixteenth. In that vast disturbance of the Reformation, which threatened so grievously the culture of Europe, it maimed forever the life of the Renaissance. It may confidently be asserted that European civilisation would have perished. There was not left on the shores of the Mediterranean, a sufficient reserve of energy to re-indulterinate the West. A well-through small states hopelessly separated by the violence and self-sufficiency of the new philosophy would each have gone down the roads where individual goes when he forgets or learns to despise traditional rules of living
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