Note 618 — Chapter XIII · THE FESTIVAL OF BLOOD. [August and September, 1572.]
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French history has an unfortunate habit of repeating itself in its worst characteristics:—“He is at the outer gate, conducted into a howling sea; forth under an arch of wild sabres, axes, and pikes; and sinks hewn asunder. And another sinks, and another, and there forms a piled heap of corpses, and the kennels were red.” Carlyle: French Revolution (September 4–6, 1792), pt. 3, bk. 1.