[COMPLETE] The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (version 2) - dc

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PL of sections 14 and 15 is ok.
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PL of sections 16 and 17 is ok.
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Sunrise2020 wrote: July 20th, 2021, 8:12 am PL of sections 16 and 17 is ok.
Thanks Susanne. Things are starting to warm up now...
I have just uploaded:
Section 20: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_20_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (25:49)
Section 21: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_21_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (8:39)

As it happens, I finally finished reading (to myself) Volume 3 of this work this morning, and to my delight came upon this as the final paragraph. With its "To thee I was but a Voice", it seems wonderfully suitable for the conclusion of an audiobook, even if we will have to wait until Volume 3 to get to it:

And so here, O Reader, has the time come for us two to part. Toilsome was our journeying together; not without offence; but it is done. To me thou wert as a beloved shade, the disembodied or not yet embodied spirit of a Brother. To thee I was but as a Voice. Yet was our relation a kind of sacred one; doubt not that! Whatsoever once sacred things become hollow jargons, yet while the Voice of Man speaks with Man, hast thou not there the living fountain out of which all sacrednesses sprang, and will yet spring? Man, by the nature of him, is definable as “an incarnated Word.” Ill stands it with me if I have spoken falsely: thine also it was to hear truly. Farewell.

Admittedly the "a Brother" is pretty sexist by today's standards, but apart from that...
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PL of sections 18 and 19 are ok.
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TheBanjo wrote: July 21st, 2021, 1:40 am
Sunrise2020 wrote: July 20th, 2021, 8:12 am PL of sections 16 and 17 is ok.
Thanks Susanne. Things are starting to warm up now...
I have just uploaded:
Section 20: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_20_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (25:49)
Section 21: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_21_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (8:39)

As it happens, I finally finished reading (to myself) Volume 3 of this work this morning, and to my delight came upon this as the final paragraph. With its "To thee I was but a Voice", it seems wonderfully suitable for the conclusion of an audiobook, even if we will have to wait until Volume 3 to get to it:

And so here, O Reader, has the time come for us two to part. Toilsome was our journeying together; not without offence; but it is done. To me thou wert as a beloved shade, the disembodied or not yet embodied spirit of a Brother. To thee I was but as a Voice. Yet was our relation a kind of sacred one; doubt not that! Whatsoever once sacred things become hollow jargons, yet while the Voice of Man speaks with Man, hast thou not there the living fountain out of which all sacrednesses sprang, and will yet spring? Man, by the nature of him, is definable as “an incarnated Word.” Ill stands it with me if I have spoken falsely: thine also it was to hear truly. Farewell.

Admittedly the "a Brother" is pretty sexist by today's standards, but apart from that...
Thanks for sharing and we'll patiently undertake the "toilsome" journey. I decided a while ago to take all the "brothers, fathers, men" as mere proxies. One of my nephews diligently uses only the female forms to show his solidarity with women.
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I have uploaded:
Section 22: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_22_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (13:30)
Section 23: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_23_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (15:23)

I read last night an interesting document that describes some of the early reviews of Carlyle's History, which were intriguingly mixed. The document is one of those listed as Further Reading for the Wikipedia article about this work: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27532548?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents. Intriguingly, many of the reviewers felt the work had a far too "Germanic" flavour - a reference, I take it, to some of Carlyle's grander philosophising about time and history and such like, which apparently got right up many British noses. But many seemed to have recognised it as a work of unusual power and originality, too.
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PL of sections 20-24 is ok.
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Sunrise2020 wrote: July 23rd, 2021, 11:22 am PL of sections 20-24 is ok.
You're rocketing along, Susanne — like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, I'm almost tempted to say.

I've now uploaded:
Section 25: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_25_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (45:23)
Section 26: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_26_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (20:59)
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Sections 25 and 26 are ok.
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Sunrise2020 wrote: July 25th, 2021, 6:52 am Sections 25 and 26 are ok.
Thank you Susanne!

I just realised today that at the very start of section 01, I omitted the words required about Librivox and volunteering (I unfortunately used the shorter version of introduction suitable for subsequent chapters instead).

I've now fixed this error and have uploaded an edited version of section 01 which is now about half a minute longer. Can you please spot check the opening of section 01 up until the actual reading of the text gets underway to verify that it is OK?
Newly edited section 01: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_01_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (10:03)
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Thanks for catching that! But how did it even come to your mind?

Spot PL is ok.
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Sunrise2020 wrote: July 26th, 2021, 1:53 am Thanks for catching that! But how did it even come to your mind?

Spot PL is ok.
Thank you!

Yes, good question. Actually, I have been starting to prepare to read Volume 2, and was looking at how I would need to introduce that, I realised that I might not have done it correctly for Vol 1 and double-checked.

I have just uploaded section 30: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/frenchrevolutionvol1_30_carlyle_128kb.mp3 (15:45)
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