Basel before four, from which place I had a letter from them, highly pleased with their escape from France, into which they had entered with an enthusiasm of patriotic devotion. Ah, France! thou hast ruined the character of a Revolution virtuously begun,... Letters from France, in 1802 - Page 356by Henry Redhead Yorke - 1804Full view - About this book
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