Excerpt from The Baroness De Bol: 1775-1803 IF any apology be needed for adding one more to the list of memoirs bearing on the French Revolution, I trust it may be fairly claimed that this record breaks fresh ground. The Baron de Bode held in 1789 a fief in Alsace, one of the last relics of feudalism in France which the new régz'me swept away. After the cata strophe he and his family took refuge in Germany; the. Baroness visited the numerous German courts and sub sequently the Court of Petersburg. She and her family were eventually granted, by the Empress Catherine II., estates in the newly conquered territory in Southern Russia. The letters addressed by the Baroness to her' English relatives afford striking glimpses of feudalism in provincial France, of the trials of an unhappy émt'gré. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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