Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The French Renascence
IN the Year of Terror, 1792, when the hosts of Prussia and Austria, taking advantage of the distress of their neighbours, invaded a dis tracted country, and initiated a European War which was to last a quarter of a century when France, bankrupt, without an army, and in the grip Of anarchy, seemed threatened With total ruin, the greatest of German poets, who had accompanied the Teutonic legions on their triumphant march through Gaul, wrote down in his notebook, on the eve of the Battle of Valmy, the following fateful words: On this day a new era has begun in the history of the World.
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