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Excerpt from The French Revolution
Of 1789 a rift began between the bourgeoisie and the masses; and it was owing to the latter that the Revolution did not stop short with political changes but undertook the championship of the peasant and the artisan. Aulard's book is written with a mastery of the sources that no historian has ever approached, and he renders the evolution of the drama thoroughly intelligible; but he lacks literary charm, and he is a frank partisan. His hatred of monarchy, feudalism, and the State Church is only equalled by his gratitude to their destroyer, and no other competent writer has come so near justifying the Terror as a patriotic necessity.
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