In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Copyright, 1898, by Laura A. Buck.


HORTENSE.


PREFACE.

The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurred in the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first was the Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful scenes of terror and of blood—the exasperated millions struggling against the accumulated oppression of ages.