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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ars, until 1827. To turn the state, before it was too late, out of the current that was driving it toward the rocks and shoals of revolution, Richelieu had a second time grasped the helm. His first measures, howvever, —the restricting of the freedom of the press for one year, the empowering of the government to hold suspected persons in prison, even without legal procedure, for three months — were carried only after a severe struggle. Still more violently the parties assailed each other over the new electoral law, for this pursued the avowed object of withdrawing elections from the influence of Liberalism. The conflicts spread from the hall of session, and in the streets it resulted in tumults and bloody collisions. But the very alarm over these scenes aided the government to victory, and the law was adopted. The Left were checked in their victorious career. But the purpose of profiting by this victory in favor of reaction was utterly remote Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry. 127
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