History of the French RevolutionThis early 20th-century work gives a concise history of the revolutionary period. |
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Alison amidst Anarchy appeared aristocracy army arrested Assembly Austrians authority Bailly Barbaroux Barère Bastile became began blood bourgeois Burke Cæsar called Camille Desmoulins Campan Carlyle cause Champ de Mars Committee common Constitution Convention court D'Herbois Danton death declared decree deputies Desmoulins Dumouriez enemies England English fear France French Revolution friends gave genius Girondins Girondist guillotine Hébert Histoire History Jacobin Club July king king's Lafayette lettres de cachet liberty Louis XVI Macaulay Madame Marat Marie Antoinette massacres Memoirs ment Mirabeau multitude Napoleon National Guards Necker nobles October original Paris parliament party patriot Pétion Pitt popular priests prisoners proposed Prussians queen radical refused Revolutionary Revolutionary Tribunal Robes Robespierre Roland Roman royal royalist sent September September massacres soldiers soon Swiss Terror thousand thru Tinville tion took Tribunal tried troops Tuileries Varennes Vendée Vergniaud Versailles Vive voted
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Page 235 - ... All down the Loire, from Saumur to the sea, great flocks of crows and kites feasted on naked corpses, twined together in hideous embraces. No mercy was shown to sex or age. The number of young lads and of girls of seventeen who were murdered by that execrable government is to be reckoned by hundreds. Babies torn from the breast were tossed from pike to pike along the Jacobin ranks.
Page 283 - who has never been within the tropics does not know what a thunderstorm means ; a man who has never looked on Niagara has but a faint idea of a cataract ; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know what it is to lie.
Page 238 - I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
Page 161 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws...
Page 157 - Brissot expressed himself more openly. " Our peril," said he, " exceeds all that past ages have witnessed. The country is in danger, not because we are in want of troops, not because those troops want courage, or that our frontiers are badly fortified, and our resources scanty. No; it is in danger because its force is paralyzed. And who has paralyzed it?
Page 51 - July approached," says an eye-witness,2 " the more did the dearth increase. Every baker's shop was surrounded by a crowd, to which bread was distributed with the most grudging economy. . . . This bread was generally blackish, earthy, and bitter, producing inflammation of the throat and pain in the bowels. I have seen flour of detestable quality at the military school and at other depots.
Page 286 - belle Aspasie. ' Je vois 1'epine avec la rose Dans les bouquets que vous m'offrez ; Et lorsque vous me celebrez, Vos vers decouragent ma prose. Tout qu'on me dit de charmant, Messieurs, a droit de me confondre — La rose est votre compliment ; L'epine est la loi d'y repondro!
Page 66 - ... poor, let them come to this hall to unite themselves with their friends; tell them no longer to retard our operations by affected delays — tell them it is vain to employ stratagems like this to induce us to alter our firm resolutions. Rather let them, as worthy imitators of their Master, renounce a luxury which consumes the funds of indigence; dismiss those insolent lackeys who attend them; sell their superb equipages, and convert these vile superfluities into aliment for the poor.
Page 157 - And who has paralysed it? A man, — one man, the man whom the constitution has made its chief, and whom perfidious advisers have made its foe. You are told to fear the kings of Hungary and Prussia; I say, the chief force of these kings is at the court, and it is there that we must first conquer them. They tell you to strike the dissentient priests throughout the kingdom. I tell you to strike at the Tuileries, that is, to fell all the priests with a single blow; you are told...
Page 160 - Mourir pour la patrie, (bis.) C'est le sort le plus beau, Le plus digne d'envie...