Sleep Story 228 – Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc
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The Transition of Europe Between 1668 and 1741
The general framework of the anti-astrian diplomacy did indeed survive from the latter 17th till the middle of the 18th century. Europe was now hopelessly, and as it seemed, finally writhe in asunder. Those who proposed to disperse the stream of European tradition gravitated into two camps, armed for a struggle, which is not even yet decided. The transition may be expressed as the long life of a man, nay, it may be exactly expressed in the life of one man, flurry, for he stood on the threshold of manhood, had its commencement and inside of death as its close.
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