If someone had sat down on July 11, 1789, to write, for a fortnightly review, an analytical account of developments in France, he—and the review—would have had a problem. You can imagine the footnote, added at last proof stage: 'As we go to press it appears that one of Paris's most important prisons may have been stormed '
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