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Sleep Story 228 – Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc

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The Great Schism in Europe

There appeared at last fixed and consolidated, a Protestant and a Catholic division in Europe. Opposing philosophies seen or unseen were henceforth to effect inwardly. England of the early 18th century was no longer a small community absorbed in theological discussion. She boasted in Malborough the chief military genius of the age. And she was upon the eve of acquiring a new colonial empire. In France, the privileges of the Huguenots had been withdrawn as the situation grew precise and clear.

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