 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - France - 1868 - 714 pages
...to Colonel Ney, his orderly-officer at Rome. It was dated at the filysee, Aug. 18, 1849. " MY DEAE NET, — The French Republic has not sent an army to Rome to smother Italian liberty, but, on the contrary, to regulate it by defending it from its own excesses,... | |
 | Bolton King - Italy - 1899 - 444 pages
...the army of occupation (August 1 8). In angry phrases he attacked the Cardinals for their misrule : " the French Republic has not sent an army to Rome to crush Italian liberty, but to regulate it, and save it from its own excesses." He asked for a general amnesty, a lay administration,... | |
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