Quote by Sarah Bakewell
““Montaigne’s half-century was so disastrous for France that it took another half-century to recover from it—and in some ways recovery never came, for the turmoil of the late 1500s stopped France from building a major New World empire like those of England and Spain, and kept it inward-looking.””
![“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]” quote by Sarah Bakewell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f48/sarah-bakewell-24972_crime_as-history-has-repeatedly-suggested-noth_1718454.jpg)
