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... Count A. de Gasparin in La France , nos Fautes , nos Périls , notre Avenir ; Amédée Leblanc in his Nos Malheurs , leurs Causes , leur Remèdes ; Auguste Deschamps in his Chute du Seconde Empire : Gasparin writes in the healthiest tone ...
... Count A. de Gasparin in La France , nos Fautes , nos Périls , notre Avenir ; Amédée Leblanc in his Nos Malheurs , leurs Causes , leur Remèdes ; Auguste Deschamps in his Chute du Seconde Empire : Gasparin writes in the healthiest tone ...
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... Count Gasparin demolish the Imperial fictions about the causes of the war ; nor is he less honest in admitting that , neither in the hostilities which ensued nor in the terms exacted , had France just cause of complaint . France was ...
... Count Gasparin demolish the Imperial fictions about the causes of the war ; nor is he less honest in admitting that , neither in the hostilities which ensued nor in the terms exacted , had France just cause of complaint . France was ...
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... Count de Gasparin again : -- * 6 6 " We cannot deny it , and history proves that among us is found , in an exceptional degree , the spirit of conquest and armed expeditions , the spirit of vainglory and combativeness . ' M. Thiers , in ...
... Count de Gasparin again : -- * 6 6 " We cannot deny it , and history proves that among us is found , in an exceptional degree , the spirit of conquest and armed expeditions , the spirit of vainglory and combativeness . ' M. Thiers , in ...
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... Gasparin saying , ' Respect for truth is the almost ' infallible test of moral worth , whether in an individual or a nation . From the beginning of the war to the end ' they have lied to us , and we have borne it . From the time of Count ...
... Gasparin saying , ' Respect for truth is the almost ' infallible test of moral worth , whether in an individual or a nation . From the beginning of the war to the end ' they have lied to us , and we have borne it . From the time of Count ...
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