Norman Davies - People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution:...

Norman Davies Zitate

People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'

Norman Davies

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Menschen sehen ihren Tod nicht sehr oft ... Sehen Sie sich die Französische Revolution an: Der König von Frankreich dachte in den 1780er Jahren: 'Wir sind in den 1770er Jahren besser als mein Vater.'

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