Biographical Sketches of the Huguenot Solomon Legaré and of His Family, Extending Down to the Fourth Generation of His Descendants - Also, Reminiscences of the Revolutionary Struggle With Great Britain, Including Incidents and Scenes W... #223772

The depopulation Of the kingdom was frightful. The best authorities estimate that France lost five hundred thousand Of her best, most intelligent moral and industrious citizens. She lost, besides, sixty millions of francs in s'pecie, and her most val nable manufactures, while four hundred thousand lives paid the forfeit of the reign of terror. This was what it cost to suppress the truth in France!