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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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single chamber, and, as such, voting collectively. By this means unrestrained power was secured for the commons. There were still two courses open to the ‘king, either of which might have succeeded not in staying, but in steadying the rush of the revolu- tionary torrent. He should either have headed manfully and boldly the liberal movement, volun- tarily curtailed his own arbitrary powers, granted progressive measures, and, with the aid of the enlightened portion of the Royalist party, have enforced the reform of the feudal system, or he should have taken a high-handed course, and with the assistance of his army compelled obe- dience and order. But, irresolute as usual, he temporised, and finally listened to that selfish minority, which thought of nothing beyond _pre- serving its hated, baneful, and obsolete privileges. So he ordered the Assembly to be closed. But the Assembly was not in a trifling mood. On finding the door of their chamber shut against them, the deputies proceeded to the tennis-court at Versailles, declared they would not leave the place, day or night, and solemnly swore that they would not separate until the king had granted them a constitution. These men were giants, though the king treated them as if they were children. He came down in
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