In the opening paragraph of Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities, he writes:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.”
The two cities he was referring to were London and Paris during the turmoil of the French Revolution. For the oppressed citizens of 18th Century France, the revolution’s proclamation of the rights of man was a “spring of hope.”
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