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The History of the French Revolution, Tr. with Notes Marie Joseph L Adolphe Thiers No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 16 - However, to avoid all delay, go and tell your master that we are here by the power of the people, and that nothing but the power of bayonets shall drive us away.
Page 100 - She recalled to his mind what he owed to his family, and went so far as to tell him, that if they must perish, it ought to be with honour, and that they should not wait to be strangled on the floor of their apartment...
Page 126 - ... against the troops of the two allied courts, and who shall be taken with arms in their hands, shall be treated as enemies, and punished as rebels to their king, and as disturbers of the public peace.
Page 387 - the income attached to the episcopal functions that you wish me to resign ? I resign it without regret. Is it my quality of priest and bishop? I cannot strip myself of that; my religion forbids me. I • appeal to the freedom of religion." The words of Gregoire finished amidst tumult, but they did not check the explosion of joy which this scene had excited. The deputation quitted the Assembly attended by an immense concourse, and proceeded to the Hotel de Ville, to receive the congratulations of...
Page 199 - Louis have a republic to establish: those who attach any importance to the just chastisement of a king, will never found a republic. Citizens, if the Roman people, after six hundred years of virtue and of hatred...
Page 220 - At these words the King suffered himself to be bound and conducted to the scaffold. All at once Louis hurriedly advanced to address the people. " Frenchmen," said he, in a firm voice, " I die innocent of the crimes which are imputed to me; I forgive the authors of my death, and I pray that my blood may not fall upon France.
Page 218 - He stopped with dignity at the door of his apartment, apparently unmoved. Garat then told him sorrowfully that he was commissioned to communicate to him the decrees of the Convention. Grouvelle, secretary of the executive council, read them to him. The first declared Louis XVI. guilty of treason against the general safety of the State ; the second condemned him to death ; the third rejected any appeal to the people ; and the fourth and last ordered his execution in twenty-four hours. Louis...
Page 375 - ... applauded her execution. On reaching the foot of the scaffold, she perceived the Tuileries, and appeared to be moved : but she hastened to ascend the fatal ladder, and gave herself up with courage to the executioner.* The infamous wretch exhibited her head to the people, as he was accustomed to do when he had sacrificed an illustrious victim. The Jacobins were overjoyed. " Let these tidings be carried to Austria...
Page 114 - ... did it give you the right of sanction, a civil list and so many prerogatives, constitutionally to lose the empire and the constitution?
Page 381 - ... Paris obliged every dealer to declare the quantity of goods in hand, the orders which he had given to procure more, and the expectations which he had of their arrival. Every shopkeeper who had been in business for a year, and either relinquished it or suffered it to languish, was declared suspected, and imprisoned as such. To prevent the confusion and the accumulation arising from an anxiety to lay in a stock, the commune also decided that the consumer should apply only to the retailer, and the...