Bourgeoisie

Soldiers and sailors, 28.

Bourgeois, 22.

Clergy, 19.

And though the above grouping is a casual grouping only, it is sufficient to refute the statements of leading Bolshevists and to dislodge the cornerstone on which Communists strive to rear apologie for their system.

For a year no further difficulty was experienced.

End of section three Section four of the English Restoration and Louis XIV By Osmond Airy This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Pamela Nagami Chapter two Prelude to the Fronde Part two Number three The Prince of Condé Great as was the service which the successes of Anguian Now to be known as Condé His father having died Had rendered the government His position was the cause of much anxiety to Mazzaron Whether for generalship or personal prowess He formed the most brilliant military figure Of the time As a great cavalry leader he has had No equal Marlborough Was not more calm Nor Rupert More impetuous To him Were given The face And figure That beseemed The warrior The ringing voice To rally A squadron Reeling from The charge The eagle eye Which notes Every desperate Chance The instantaneous Decision which Compels the fate Of battle He became The idol Of the proud And warlike Youth who had Fought and conquered With them At Rocroi And Nordlingen And who Emulating His cool Carelessness In danger And his Desperate Valor in action Formed The nucleus Of that Household Brigade Which earned For itself So terrible A fame Throughout Europe Supreme As he was However In the battlefield Conde's Character Was marred By unfortunate Weaknesses He was Foppish Irritable Intemperate In thought And language And inordinately Vain His followers Imitated The defects Of their master And what was Pardonable In the great Soldier Became Absurd in Them With Their wonted Readiness The Parisians Took hold Of the poorer Side of their Character The supercilious Airs The foppishness Of dress And they Have come down To us As the Petits Maitres Intoxicated With his Well-earned Glory And with the Adulation Of this Band of Worshippers Influential Alike By the Enormous Wealth And power Which he had Inherited And by his Near relation To the throne Conde now Began to Evince A dangerous Ambition In this Ambition He was firmly Withstood By Mazarin And the Queen To allow One man To become So powerful Was to throw Up the game The check Sank deep Into Conde's Mind To the Contempt Of the noble For the Bourgeois And of the Warrior For the Statesman Was now Added A feeling Of active Hostility Which at no Distant Time Was to bear Fruit Number Four Encroachments Of the Parlement This however Was not the Danger That was Momentarily Pressing Upon the Government The financial Troubles Were again Urgent In addition To indirect Taxation Which raised No opposition From the People Mairie Now put in Action one Of the edicts Of sixteen Forty five By which All possessors Of lands Held on An annual Rental To the crown Were ordered To redeem That rent By payment Of a year's Revenue The peculiar Sting of this Lay in the Fact that While the Rent Had not been Changed Since the Middle Ages And was therefore Practically Nominal The revenue Had continually Increased The bourgeoisie Were at once In arms Against the Racha For three Days the Palais Royal Was besieged By a crowd Of angry Citizens The announcement That a Lit De Justice Was to be held To bear Down Opposition Intensified The excitement Dangerous Talk was heard The successful Insurrection Of Masaniello In Naples Was quoted During the Night The firing Of musketry Was heard In the streets The bourgeois Were trying Their arms Urged on By their Necessities The government Nevertheless Were firm The Lit De Justice Was held The operation Of the Racha Was indeed Postponed But money Was again Raised by New creations Especially Of Maître Deracates The young King and Mazarin Had to listen To some Plain speaking For ten Years sire Said Omer Talon The president The country Districts have Been ruined The peasants Compelled to Lie upon Straw Their furniture Sold for the Payment of taxes And for Ten years To minister To the luxury Of paris Millions Of innocent Folk are obliged To live upon Rye and oat Bread And their Only protection Is their poverty Their souls And nothing Else are their Own and that Is only Because they Cannot be sold The historian of the French Revolution finds its direct cause in the state of misery to which the peasantry were reduced under the administrations of Richelieu and Mazarin.

Over the creation of maîtres de raquette serious opposition again broke out.

The existing officials loudly denied the right to create new offices during the minority of the king.