History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, Том 2Henry G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Страница 62 - 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 196 - The chamber of the deputy contained only a wooden bedstead, covered with blue damask ornamented with white flowers, a table, and four straw-bottomed chairs. This apartment served him at once for a study and dormitory. His papers, his reports, the manuscripts of his discourses, written by himself in a regular but labored hand, and with many marks of erasure, were placed carefully on deal shelves against the wall.
Страница 304 - 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.
Страница 164 - for I will not call you either citizens or soldiers, you see before you this artillery, behind you this cavalry ; you are stained with crimes, and I do not tolerate here assassins or executioners. I know that there are scoundrels among you charged to excite you to crime. Drive them from among you, or denounce them to me, for I shall hold you responsible for their conduct.
Страница 164 - Dumouriez, and soon threatened to uproot all discipline, saying openly that the ancient officers were traitors, and that it was necessary to purge the army, as they had Paris, of its aristocrats. Dumouriez posted these battalions apart from the others, placed a strong force of cavalry behind them, and two pieces of cannon on their flank. Then, affecting to review them, he halted at the head of the line, surrounded by all his staff, and an escort of a hundred hussars.
Страница 238 - At some steps from this dwelling was the donjon of the chateau, once the fortification of the Temple. Its abrupt, dark mass rose on a simple spot of ground toward the sky ; two square towers, the one larger, the other smaller, were united to each other like a mass of walls, each one having at its flank other small suspended towers, in former days crowned with battlements at their extremity, and these formed the principal group of this construction. Some low and more modern buildings abutted upon...
Страница 163 - Chalons, and intoxicated with massacre and sedition, were those who most threatened the subordination of the camp, saying openly that the ancient officers were traitors, and that it was necessary to purge the army, as they had Paris, of its aristocrats. Dumouriez posted these battalions apart from the others, placed a strong force of cavalry behind them, and two pieces of cannon on their flank. Then, affecting to review them, he halted at the head of the line, surrounded by all his...
Страница 280 - The proceeding against the tyrant is insurrection — his sentence is his fall from power ; his punishment that exacted by the liberty of the people. The people dart their thunderbolts, that is, their sentence : they do not condemn kings, they suppress them — thrust them back again into nothingness. "Two months since, and who would ever have supposed there would be a question here of the inviolability of kings?
Страница 238 - This dilapidated palace contained apartments furnished with ancient movables, beds and linen for the suite of the prince. A porter and his family were its only hosts. A garden surrounded it, as empty and neglected as the palace. At some steps from this dwelling was the donjon of the chateau, once the fortification of the Temple. Its abrupt, dark mass rose on...
Страница 280 - But there is another difficulty — to what punishment shall we condemn him ? The punishment of death is too cruel, says one. No, says another...