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Updated: May 2, 2025

Of the Revolution, of a century of free examination and science, of the emancipation of her mind, of her initiatory and liberative labour in all parts of the world?

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

He was second son of that little Leopold, the solemn little Herr in red stockings, who had such troubles, frights, and runnings to and fro with the sieging Turks, liberative Sobieskis, acquisitive Louis Fourteenths; and who at length ended in a sea of futile labor, which they call the Spanish Succession War.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05

It was, thanks to this silence, that he, Guillaume, had not been worried or even summoned as a witness. Then, in his emotion, he reverted to his invention, that formidable engine which would ensure omnipotence to France, as the great initiatory and liberative power of the world.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4