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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