This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Who Was Szechenyi?.IntroductionWhen one thinks of the Hungarian
The King Flees France
King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie-Amalie at last reached the seacoast, and set sail toward England, that safe and well-known refuge of unfortunate
King of France Abdicates
The King sat at his writing-table, agitated and perplexed.Continuing The February 1848 Revolution in France,our selection fromPopular History of
The Violence Begins
By daybreak Paris was covered with barricades.Continuing The February 1848 Revolution in France,our selection fromPopular History of France From
Banquets Media for Rebellion
Weakness has a constraining power difficult to understand, which is not foreseen even by those who give way to it; and of this the history of the
Conservatives Consider Concessions
The maintenance of the unity of the Conservative party," said Guizot, "the maintenance of conservative policy and power, will be the fixed idea and
The February 1848 Revolution In France
This series has six easy five minute installments. This first installment: Guizot's Repugnance and Sorrow of Those Painful Days.The French
Murder and Flight
Today's installment concludes Pius IX Flees Rome,our selection from Pius the Ninth and the Revolution at Rome (in the North American Review, volume
Assassination Plot
Several of his friends came and remonstrated with him against such an exposure of his life.Continuing Pius IX Flees Rome,our selection from Pius