Galignani enumerates the following events which occurred here and rendered the Place de la Concorde famous: "July 12, 1789.A collision between Prince de Lambesc's regiment and the people became the signal for the destruction of the Bastille.

"The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of an hiatus.

The first collision between Hinduism and Islam on the Punjab frontier was the act of the Hindus.

But if we concede that collision was inevitable between the new Republic on the one hand and Holy Russia and the Holy Roman Empire on the other, there remain two great European forces which, in different attitudes and from very different motives, determined the ultimate combination.

A collision was a mere question of time, and of short time at the best.