id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7353 Edmund Burke - Wikipedia .html text/html 22584 2722 71 In a letter to his son Richard Burke dated 10 October, he said: "This day I heard from Laurence who has sent me papers confirming the portentous state of France—where the Elements which compose Human Society seem all to be dissolved, and a world of Monsters to be produced in the place of it—where Mirabeau presides as the Grand Anarch; and the late Grand Monarch makes a figure as ridiculous as pitiable".[83] On 4 November, Charles-Jean-François Depont wrote to Burke, requesting that he endorse the Revolution. Burke called for external forces to reverse the Revolution and included an attack on the late French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau as being the subject of a personality cult that had developed in revolutionary France. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7353.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7353.txt