The epoch covered by this, the 16th story of Eugene Sue's dramatic historic series, entitled _The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages_, extends over the turbulent yet formative era known in history as the Religious Reformation. The social system that had been developing since the epoch initiated by the 8th story of the series, _The Abbatial Crosier; or, Bonaik and Septimine_, that is, the feudal system, and which is depicted in full bloom in the 14th story of the series, _The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn the Champion_, had been since suffering general collapse with the approach of the bourgeois, or capitalist system, which found its first open, or politi…
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