A Sequel to Don Juan — page 195: what you’re looking at

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186 A SEQUEL To LXXXIX. Paris was then a Pandemonium In which all those fierce spirits agitated, From whose destroying genius was to come The fiat by which Kings and Priests were fated Alike to fall, and share a common doom, Till by a new revulsion reinstated.— We soon shall have the same proceedings here, If Peel should stay in but another year. XC, In seventeen hundred and ninety-two, * (June was the month) our hero, as declared, Reached Paris. ’T was a furnace then of new And powerful intellects—of men prepared Thrones to demolish—aye, and altars too, So that no single remnant might be spared Of that antique society whose knell The voice of Mirabeau had rung so well . * In order to arrive at the correctness of this date, it is necessary for the reader to refer to certain details in the last few cantos of Lord Byron’s ‘ Don Juan.’ Ismael was taken in 1790: Juan then remained some time at the court of the Empress Catherine, previous to his journey to England, It was, then, in the summer of 1791 that he visited Norman Abbey, where he is left by the noble author above mentioned. The incidents already related m the ‘' Sequel to Don Juan” occupy the interval until June 1792. cComicbooks;com