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For my paper this evening,
I have been assigned a
period of history in which the
most sanguinary conflict
the world ever beheld was
inaugurated and executed
with relentless cruelty, -- The
French Revolution: holding
Democracy in the throes and
convulsion of a terrible unheaval.
I am to give the political phase
of the career of Marie Antoinette.

Lamartine epitomized her
career in a pen-picture
wonderfully comprehensive
in its brevity when
he says: Whether in consequence
of the elevation of her rank,
the great influence she
had on the Revolution,