Count Frontenac stood before him. Since his recall, he had lived at court, needy and no longer in favor; but he had influential friends, and an
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Street Demonstrations Turn Violent
The struggle on the streets was raging fiercely. Archduke Albert had found to his cost that the insurrection was not, as he had supposed, the work of
Assembly Resists Crowd
Representatives as they were of the privileged classes, they had little sympathy with the movement that was going on in Vienna.Continuing 1848
University Meets Assembly
The appeal produced its effect; and the crowd grew dense as the students marched into the narrow Herren Gasse.Continuing 1848 German
Calls for Reform Spreads from Universities
The expression of desire for reform now became much more general.Continuing 1848 German Revolutions,our selection from The Revolutionary Movement
Demands on the Hapsburgs
He then urged that the future of the dynasty depended on the hearty union between the nations which lived under it.Continuing 1848 German
1848 German Revolutions
This series has eight easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Robert Blum Protests.This selection is from The Revolutionary Movement
Denonville Recalled
Concealed by the tempest and the darkness, fifteen hundred warriors landed at La Chine, and silently posted themselves about the houses of the
Death of Nicholas V
Today's installment concludes Nicholas V Rebuilds Rome,our selection from Makers of Modern Rome by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant published in 1895.If