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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To my grandchildren in the hope that the present and the future, however engrossing, will not preclude a glance at the past
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In the spring of the year 1725 Louis XV, the King of France, was respectfully informed by his ministers that the time had come for him to marry.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Luxury (or, as we should put it, "our high standard of living") "seems to have fitted us for a prey to the insults and invasions of our most powerful enemy," France.
...though "politics brought an end to our correspondence our hearts will remain united in life and in death."
Always ready to oblige, Necker piled up foreign loan on foreign loan so that temporarily at least the country should not feel the burden of war, but at the same time he warned the government that pouring France's wealth across the Atlantic must soon end in disaster.
The details of the interview are unknown, but whatever was said touched off a train of events that led not merely to the independence of the thirteen colonies, but beyond that to the creation of the United States and the downfall of the French monarchy.
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
He would be home soon now, and by that time summer would be here again and the sun would be shining.