Chapter 89: Chapter 89

XVIII A Recrudescence of Divine Right End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the counterrevolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and halted short. The Empire was bewept—let us acknowledge the fact—and bewept by heroic eyes. If glory l…