The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
“Historians can point to various signs along the way that foreshadowed things to come, and even fix upon different pivotal moments that marked the time when the country was put firmly on the road to revolution, past the point of any return. To those living in France at the time, however, the happenings of the day—noteworthy and serious as they often were—did not foretell any particular momentous destination for their society. They were merely events punctuating their own progress through life, c...ertainly not harbingers of a cataclysmic reordering of the whole world. No one could have seen in the crises of the 1780s the fall of the aristocracy, the beheading of the king and queen, the Reign of Terror, and the rise of Napoleon.There was no question that France was in trouble, and that its troubles were a long time in the making. Years of borrowing money to finance costly wars and lavish spending at home had taken its toll on a country already weakened by feckless political leadership and structural changes in society.MoreLess
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