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Frenchmen throughout the centuries 'have always thrilled to the sound of the Marseillaise, for it epitomizes all the idealism and national pride of the French Revolution—the social and political uprising that was to set Frenchmen free from the yoke of tyranny and give them liberty, equality, and fraternity.
The Marseillaise was, in fact, composed at the time of the Revolution, and one episode in this book describes the singing of the great anthem by the little Dauphin, who had forgotten his royal birth.
The volume opens with the story of the storming of the Bastille and continues with accounts of the flight of the royal family, the sad fate of King Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, the lonely childhood of the Dauphin, the Reign of Terror, and, finally, a forecast of the birth of the empire that was to be ruled by Napoleon.
All the terror, the excitement, the ambition, and the idealism of those hazardous and heroic times are relived in these dramatic stories.
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