All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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