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All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Age: 87 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 28
Died: 1956
Died: April 13
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Shooters Hill
S. G. Tallentyre
Stephen G. Tallentyre
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