Excerpt from Modes Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 3: As Represented in the Pictures, and Engravings of the Time The Bourbons had returned to France, the Pope to Rome, and all the Italian and German princes were again on their thrones, received back with cheers that must have been welcome after the greetings which the populace had accustomed them. The ruinous condition of affairs that had prevailed in Europe during the preceding thirty years, the uncertainty in which all classes had lived and the continual changes of government, had put a stop to all steady progress, and nothing had been permanently established in place of the superannuated and decaying institutions that had been swept away; society was consequently in a state of flux. Everybody of every class was tired out; the war which had been carried on without intermission during the lifetime of a whole generation had crippled the landowners and ruined the commercial class, besides diminishing the population, and the general desire now was for peace and order. 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.