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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ed during the eighteen years of his reign four-teen thousand orders of arrest. He was kind-hearted; but it was the work-ing of the old feudal system of government which gave him all powerover the liberties and lives of the people. For sixty years Louis XV., weak, mean, and wicked, had plunderedthe people of France. He regarded France as his property, the peopleas his subjects, to be slaughtered in battle, to work for his benefit andpleasure. The great men, the nobility, were his servants. Every morningthey gathered in the palace at Versailles to help him dress for the day—one to hold the wash-bowl; another to hand him a towel; the third topass him his shirt. If they wanted money he supplied them out of theroyal revenue. He cared nothing for the welfare or happiness of thepeople. Lie knew that he was hurrying the country to ruin; but littlecared he. After us the deluge, he said. The noblemen, the bishops, priests, officers of the army and navy, the 44 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. III.
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judges—all the great families—paid no taxes, but received great revenuesfrom the people. The nobility had nothing to do except to eat, drink,attend balls or hunting-parties, and play cards. They lived, in fine cha-teans. They had beautiful parks, gardens, and hunting-grounds. Thelaws were in their interest and against the people. They owned all thecorn-mills. The people were not allowed to use the free winds of heavento turn a mill of their own, but they must cany their corn to the millowned by the seigneur, that he might take toll from the grist. The peoplecould gather no fagots blown by the wind from the trees; they could noteven gather the weeds from the roadside to heat their ovens, but must take 1789.) TEACHING BY EXAMPLE. 45

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