Excerpt from A Letter to a Friend: On the Late Revolution in France No man in France more ardently wifhed to redrefs all grievances, and particularly the de rangement of the finances, than the king him feif. Mr. Paine allows him to be a good man, and on that account beloved by the nation. His Majeliy lamented the ambition of Lewis XIV. And the voluptuoufnefs of his grand father, to which, with great probability, I may add the fatal alliance which he formed with America: for all thefe contributed to the ruin of the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.