Excerpt from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, the Prince of Adventurers, Vol. 1 of 2: A New and Abridged With Introduction, Two Portraits, Notes, and Appendices

The stage of Casanova - the field of his vital operations has been razed and abolished by the tremendous upheaval and alteration worked by the Revolution, but the world before the flood, of Madame de Pompadour's lurid prediction, lives again in the Venetian's pages. Though he survived the Revolution, watching its wild progress from his lonely home in Bohemia, his day was over before it broke out. From the circumstances of his life and training, he was an aristocrat at heart, a monarchist indeed, as his wordy contention with Voltaire shows, and the narrow spirit of his generation and the short-sighted political outlook of those with whom he ranged himself are evidenced by his absurd View of the causes of the outbreak. We come across these views in the M moires and in a short essay of his entitled Causes of the French Revolution. He attributes the fall of the monarchy to the untoward exist ence of the Due d'orl ans - Egalit - whose presence on this planet was the unfortunate result of cabbalistic experiments on the complexion of Egalite's mother, the Duchesse de Chartres

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