Historical View of the French Revolution: From Its Earliest Indications to the Flight of the King in 1791H.G. Bohn, 1860 - 297 pages |
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Page 118 - Go, Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence...
Page 102 - I know nothing more terrible than the sovereign aristocracy of six hundred persons, who might to-morrow render themselves irrevocable, hereditary the day after, and end, like the aristocracies of every country in the world, by invading everything.
Page 61 - I know I am indiscreet, sir," said she, at last; "but you must pardon one whose zeal outruns her reason. " And I bowed grandly, as I might have done in extending mercy to some captive taken in battle. "There is but one favor more, sir, I have to beg." "Speak it, madam. As the courtier remarked, if it be possible it is done, if impossible it shall be done.
Page 153 - Bastille into the air, buried one hundred thousand people beneath its ruins, and have demolished one-third of Paris. Two subaltern officers crossed their bayonets before him and prevented the accomplishment of this horrible design. Some wretches seized upon a young lady whom they believed to be the governor's daughter, and wished by the threat of burning her within view of her father upon the towers to compel him to surrender. But the citizens promptly rescued her from their hands and conveyed her...
Page 214 - ... in France, must apparently be one of the features of the work of the future historian who would do justice to the Revolution. They occupied a position almost unique in history, large numbers of them being, as Michelet has expressed it, at once the heirs and the enemies of their own cause. " Educated in the generous ideas of the philosophy of the time, they applauded that marvellous resuscitation of mankind, and offered up prayers for it, even though it cost their ruin.
Page 3 - Its large black and white slabs resound beneath my feet. I commune with my own mind. I interrogate myself as to my teaching, my history, and its all-powerful interpreter,— the spirit of the Revolution. It possesses a knowledge of which others are ignorant. It contains the secret of all bygone times. In it alone France was conscious of herself. When, in a moment of weakness, we may appear forgetful of our own worth, it is to this point we should recur in order to seek and recover ourselves again....
Page 86 - ON the eve of the opening of the States-General, the Mass of the Holy Ghost was solemnly said at Versailles. It was certainly that day or never, that they might sing the prophetic hymn : — " Thou wilt create peoples, and the face of the earth shall he renewed.
Page 64 - he is too good.1" The ladies' maid thus summed up in one word the guarantees of monarchy. The king was too good to cut a man's head off; " that was no longer agreeable to custom ; but he could with one word send him to the Bastile, and there forget him. It remains to be seen whether it is better to perish with one blow, or to suffer a lingering death for thirty or forty years.
Page 13 - I am endeavouring to describe to-day that epoch of unanimity, that holy period, when a whole nation, free from all party distinction, as yet a comparative stranger to the opposition of classes, marched together under a flag of brotherly love. Nobody can behold that marvellous unanimity, in which the selfsame heart beat together in the breasts of twenty millions of men, without returning thanks to God. These are the sacred days of the world — thrice happy days for history.
Page 185 - ... men and starving women, delirious from fasting. Some were said not to have eaten for three whole days. The women wandered about like hungry lionesses, for they had children. One Foulon, a member of the king's council, on being told of the famine endured by the people, said, " Wait till I am minister: I will make them eat hay; my horses eat it.