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France.

Louis XVIII was recalled and served nine years until
his death. His was the only government that did not come
to a violent end during the eighty year period. The reign
of Charles X that followed was overthrown in 1830 by

an uprising of the Orleanists that placed Louis Philippe
on the throne, only to be driven out after eighteen years
of unrest. In this third revolution of 1848, a Second

Republic was proclaimed.
Nesta Webster summed up the whole affair in this

Manner:

The immense reforms brought about during the
revolutionary era were not the result of the Revolution. It
was to the King and his enlightened advisors . . . that the

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reforms in government were primarily due; it was the
noblesse that dealt the death-blow to the feudal system; it
was the Royalist Democrats, abhorred of the

the

was the Royalist Democrats, abhorred of the
revolutionary leaders, who drew up the Declaration of
the Rights of Man and framed the Constitution. The
work of the Revolution was to destroy all three reforms

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was

— to abolish the liberty of the press, liberty of
conscience, personal liberty, to replace the comparatively
mild feudalism of the Old Regime by the most frightful
tyranny the world has ever seen, and finally to annul the
Constitution demanded by the people in favor of a
Constitution that could never be enforced, that lasted
exactly twenty-six months, and was followed by no less
than six others in the eighty years that followed."

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The French Revolution

defeated at Waterloo, and again foreign armies entered

Democrats,