A Papal Envoy During The Reign Of Terror
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780548037010
Subjects: Historical - General; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography : Personal Memoirs; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: AFTER nineteen long years passed amidst humiliations, bitterness and every kind of persecution, I, at last comply with your wish, and relate to you one of the most terrible scenes of the Revolution, one that preceded and foreshadowed the yet more tragic scene, which threw a veil of mourning over France, and spread consternation throughout Europe.