History Of The Girondists; Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots Of The French Revolution |
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Страница 74 - You may rely, sire," replied Vergniaud, " on the firmness of the National Assembly : its members have sworn to die in supporting the rights of the people and the constituted authority.
Страница 427 - The National Convention declares, in the name of the French nation, that it will grant fraternity and assistance to all people who wish to recover their liberty; and it charges the executive power to send the necessary orders to the generals, to give succours to such people, and to defend those citizens who have suffered, or may suffer, in the cause of liberty...
Страница 326 - I recommend my son, if he has' the misfortune to become king, to remember that he owes himself to the happiness of his fellow citizens, to forget all hatred and resentment, and especially that which relates to the misfortunes and sorrows I now undergo. Let him remember that he can only make his subjects happy by reigning according to the laws — but that a king can only cause the laws to be respected; and do all the good he wishes, SO long as he possesses the necessary power ; but that when ths...
Страница 302 - But there is another difficulty — to what punishment shall we condemn him ? The punishment of death is too cruel, says one. No, says another, life is more cruel still, and we must condemn him to live.
Страница 324 - France, having been more than four months immured with my Family in the Tower of the Temple at Paris, by those who were my subjects, and deprived of all communication...
Страница 301 - If he be innocent, what are we but his calumniators ! " Be on your guard, citizens ; they seek to deceive you with false notions. The majestic movements of a great people, the sublime impulses of virtue, are represented to us as the eruptions of a volcano ; and, like the overturning of political society, when a nation is compelled to have recourse to insurrection to obtain its rights it returns to a state of nature. With respect to its tyrant — how can he appeal to the social compact, when he has...
Страница 260 - ... guard-rooms. These halls communicated with other hidden and more narrow places cut in the towers. The walls of the edifice were nine feet thick. The embrasures of the few windows which lighted it, very large at the entrance of the hall, sunk as they became narrow, even to the crosswork of stone, and loft only a feeble and remote light to penetrate into the interior.
Страница 319 - Ask aloud for what you want," said Chaumette, retreating as though he feared being suspected of pity. " I asked for a piece of your bread," replied the King. " Divide it with me/
Страница 359 - ... waited long. For nearly two hours they came knocking at the door of his chamber under various pretexts, and at each summons the confessor believed it the final order. The king rose without hesitation, opened the door, and having replied, resumed his seat. At nine o'clock there was a tumultuous noise of armed men on the staircase, and the doors were suddenly opened. Santerre appeared, attended by twelve municipals, and with ten gendarmes, whom he arranged in two lines in the apartment. The king...
Страница 364 - He would have proceeded ; a shudder ran through the crowd. The principal officer of the staff of the troops of the camp round Paris, Beaufranc/iet Comte d'Oyat, son of Louis XV.