The First Republic Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Whites and the Blues (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The First Republic Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Whites and the Blues<br><br>Two or three of these patrols had met our young arrival and his conductor without taking any notice of them when suddenly another body advanced and the words Qui vive resounded. There were three ways of replying to the nocturnal qui-vive in Strasbourg; all three indicating in a sufficiently characteristic way the different shades of Opin ion. The Indifferents replied: Friends. The Moder ates replied: Citizens. The Fanatics replied: Sans Culottes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.