Excerpt from The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 1880, Vol. 50 But there can be no doubt that to French Republicans there has always seemed something especially romantic, inspiriting, and even grand in the taking of the Bastille. The news that the great prison had been taken and was to be razed was hailed throughout Europe as a sign that a new era had dawned and that the people were to be greater than the kings. Even at St. Petersburg, we are told, men of all nations flung themselves into each other's arms and wept, or were taken to weep, for joy. The amiable' cowper had' already assured his readers that there was not an English heart that would not leap to hear that the horrid towers of the Bastille had fallen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.