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CONTENTS.
Agitation in the Palais-Royal
Intrigues of the Orleans party
June 30. The people deliver the French Guards
Paris desires to arm
July 11. Necker dismissed
The Court prepares for resistance
CHAPTER VI.
INSURRECTION OF PARIS.
Danger of Paris
July 12. Outbreak of Paris
Inaction of Versailles
Provocation of the troops
Paris takes up arms
13. The Assembly applies to the King in vain
The electors authorize the arming
Organization of the citizen guard
Hesitation of the electors
The people seize some gunpowder
The people seek for guns Security of the Court.
CHAPTER VII.
TAKING OF THE BASTILLE, JULY 14TH, 1789.
Difficulty of taking the Bastille
The idea of the attack belongs to the people
Hatred of the people for the Bastille
Joy of the world at its capture
14. The people carry off the guns
The Bastille was in a state of defence.
Thuriot summons the Bastille to surrender
The electors send uselessly several deputations
Last attack, Elie, Hullin
Danger of delay
The people believe themselves betrayed
The people menace the provost and the electors
The conquerors at the Hôtel-de-Ville
How the Bastille surrendered
The Bastille invaded by the people
Death of the governor
Prisoners put to death
Prisoners pardoned by the people
Clemency of the people
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BOOK II.
JULY 14 TO OCTOBER 6, 1789.
CHAPTER I.
THE HOLLOW TRUCE.
Versailles, on the 14th and 15th of July
July 15. The King at the Assembly
Paris in mourning and misery
Deputation of the Assembly to the city of Paris
17. The hollow peace.
The King goes to Paris
First emigration: Artois, Condé, Polignac, &c.
Isolated position of the King
CHAPTER II.
POPULAR JUDGMENTS.
No power inspires any confidence.
The judiciary power has lost confidence
Breton club-Advocates; the Basoche
Danton and Camille Desmoulins
Barbarity of the laws and punishments
Judgments pronounced at the Palais-Royal
La Grève and famine.
Foulon and Berthier
Famine
July 22. Death of Foulon, and of Berthier
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CHAPTER III.
FRANCE IN ARMS.
Embarrassment of the Assembly
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23. They engage the people to put confidence in them
27. The court compromised by the English Ambassador.
Fury of the old nobles and new nobles
Terror of the rural districts
The peasants take up arms against the brigands
They burn the feudal charters, and fire several castles
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Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
Disturbances; danger of France
July 27. The Assembly creates the Committee of Inquiry
Attempts of the Court.
They wish to prevent the trial of Besenval
The royalist party wish to make a weapon of public
charity
The revolutionary part of the nobles offer to abandon
the feudal rights
Night of the 4th of August.
Class privileges abandoned
Resistance of the clergy
Privileges of provinces abandoned
CHAPTER V.
THE CLERGY AND THE PEOPLE.
Prophetic speeches of Fauchet
Impotent efforts for reconciliation
Imminent ruin of the ancient Church
The Church had abandoned the people
August 6. Buzot claims the estates of the clergy for the nation
Suppression of Tithes
Religious liberty acknowledged
League of the clergy, the nobility, and the Court
Paris abandoned to itself.
No public authority: few acts of violence
Patriotic donations
Devotion and sacrifice
THE VETO.
Difficulty of procuring provisions
The urgent state of things
Can the King arrest everything?
Long discussion on the Veto
Secret projects of the Court
Is there to be one Chamber or two? The English
school
The Assembly required to be dissolved and renewed
It was heterogeneous, discordant, and powerless
Discordant principles of Mirabeau ; his fear
August 30. Agitation of Paris on the question of the Veto
State of the Press. Multiplication of the newspapers
Tendency of the Press
The Press is still royalist
Loustalot, the editor of the Révolutions de Paris
31. His proposition rejected at the Hotel-de-Ville .
Conspiracy of the Court, known to Lafayette and every-
body
Growing opposition between the National Guards and
the people
Uncertain conduct of the Assembly
Sept. 18. Volney proposes to it to dissolve
Impotency of Necker and the Assembly
Impotency of the Court and the Duke of Orleans
Even the Press powerless
CHAPTER VIII.
THE PEOPLE GO TO FETCH THE KING, OCTOBER 5TH, 1789.
The people alone find a remedy
Egotistical position of the Kings at Versailles.
Louis XVI. unable to act in any way.
The Queen solicited to act
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October 1. Orgy of the body guards
Insults offered to the national cockade
Irritation of Paris
Misery and sufferings of the women
Their courageous compassion
5. They invade the Hotel-de-Ville
They march upon Versailles
The Assembly receives warning
Maillard and the women before the Assembly
Robespierre supports Maillard
The women before the King
Indecision of the Court .
CHAPTER IX.
THE PEOPLE BRING THE KING BACK TO PARIS, OCTOBER 6TH, 1789.
5th of October continued. First blood shed
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The women gain over the regiment of Flanders
A fight between the body guard and the National
Guard of Versailles
The King no longer able to escape
The affright of the Court
The women pass the night in the hall of the Assembly
Lafayette forced to march against Versailles .
October 6. The château assailed
The danger of the Queen
The body guard saved by the French ex-guards
The Queen before the people .
Hesitation of the Assembly
Movement unforeseen
Conduct of the Duke of Orleans
The King conducted to Paris.