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Historical Epochs of the French Revolution - With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France - And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz
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LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;

WITH A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION,

Who voted FOR and AGAINST his DEATH;

AND THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS IN
THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING
TO THEIR PRINCIPLES.

BATH, PRINTED BY R. CRUTTWELL FOR THE AUTHOR;
AND SOLD BY C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON: THE BOOKSELLERS OF BATH, &c.
MDCCXCVI

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DEDICATION.

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK.

SIR,
WITH the design of serving an amiable and worthy man, I have
availed myself of your Royal Highness's permission to dedicate to you
the translation of a work, which, as a faithful narrative of events,
wants no additional comment to make it interesting. A detail of
facts, in which your Royal Highness, in behalf of your country, has
been so honourably engaged, may not prove unwelcome in aid of
recollection; and a detail of facts, built on the experimental
horrors of popular power, and which, proceeding from the wildness of
theory to the madness of practice, has swept away every vestige of
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