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LibriVox recording of The French Revolution, by Hilaire Belloc. Read by Ray Clare
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in numbers, or even (what is more compelling still) a unanimity of decision in a community may order, may not only be wrong but may be something which that community has no authority to order since, though it possesses a civil and temporal authority, it acts against that ultimate authority which is its own consciousness of right. Men may and do justly protest against the doctrine that a community is incapable of doing deliberate evil; it is as capable of such an action as is an individual. But men nowhere do or can deny that the community acting as it thinks right is ultimately sovereign: there is no alternative to so plain a truth.” - Hilaire Belloc
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Artist/Composer: Hilaire Belloc
Date: 2010-01-27
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; Audiobooks; History; Fench Revolution; Catholic Church
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01 - Preface 6:38 02 - Chapter 1 The Poitical Theory of the Revolution 14:35 03 - Chapter 1 (concluded) 15:45 04 - Chapter 4 Rousseau 13:47 05 -Chapter III The Characters of the Revolution - King Louis XVI 13:08 06 - Chapter III (cont.) - The Queen 14:36 07 - Chapter III (cont.) - Mirabeau 13:46 08 - Chapter 3 (cont.) - La Fayette - Dumouriez - Danton 17:43 09 - Chapter III (concluded) - Carnot - Marat - Robespierre 19:03 10 - Chapter IV - The Phases of the Revolution - I 11:02 11 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - I 14:31 12 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - II 7:05 13 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - III 10:54 14 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - IV 9:17 15 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revoluton - IV 9:20 16 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - V 13:28 17 - Chapter 4 (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI 10:37 18 - Chapter IV (cont.) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI 10:58 19 - Chapter IV (concluded) - The Phases of the Revolution - VI 8:28 20 - Chapter V - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 10:34 21 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 13:00 22 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 10:45 23 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 11:51 24 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 10:43 25 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 9:56 26 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revoluton 11:04 27 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 10:32 28 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 9:49 29 - Chapter V (cont.) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 10:37 30 - Chapter V (concluded) - The Military Aspect of the Revolution 7:21 31 - Chapter VI - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 11:10 32 - Chapter VI (cont.) - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 10:26 33 - Chapter VI (cont.) - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 10:38 34 - Chapter VI (cont.) - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 11:03 35 - Chapter VI (cont.) - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 12:17 36 - Chapter VI (concluded) - The Revolution and the Catholic Church 13:03