Fedora: Or the Tragedy in the Rue de la Paix (Classic Reprint)

Political interests so absorbed attention in France during the first months of the year 1848, that few persons remember to-day the numerous private or judicial events of that exciting period. In fact, what, in quiet times, is sufficient to give food to the insatiable Parisian curiosity, seems of no account in days of trouble and revolution. How is it possible to be interested in a drama which takes place between the four walls of a house, or behind the door of a court of assizes, when there are passing before our eyes events with which we are directly connected, and in the result of which our dearest interests are bound up? The call to arms, the roll of the drum and the boom of the cannon swallow up other sounds, and render us deaf to all private cries of distress.
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