History of the great French revolution, a 2nd (3rd) course of lectures1883 |
Common terms and phrases
accusation ANNIE BESANT answer arms army arrested Assembly Atheism attack Barbaroux Barère Billaud-Varenne blood Brissot Buzot Caen Camille Desmoulins carried Charlotte Corday Chaumette citizens Collot d'Herbois Committee of Public Commune condemned Convention Cordelier Couthon cries crime crowd Danton death declared decree demand denounced deputies Dumouriez enemies Fabre d'Eglantine fall fear foes France FREETHOUGHT French Revolution Garat Gensonné Gironde Girondins Girondists Guadet guillotine hall hands head Hébert Hébertistes Henriot Hérault Histoire History Houchard insurrection Isnard Jacobin Club judge July justice Lamartine LECTURE liberty Louis Blanc Louis XVI Louvet Lyons Marat March Marie Antoinette menaced mercy Montagne nation Pache Paris party passed passionate patriots Pétion priests prison Public Safety Republic Republican Revolutionary Tribunal Robes Robespierre Ronsin royalist Saint Saint-Just says scaffold silence soldiers struggle terrible Terror tion traitors trial triumph turn tyranny tyrants Valazé Vendée Vergniaud Vive voice wife wrath
Popular passages
Page 277 - that is the word; Committee of Salut Public has said it: Representative Cavaignac, on mission there, must .see it done. Impossible ! cries Miiller. Infallible! answers Cavaignac. Difficulty, impossibility, is to no purpose. 'The Committee is deaf on that side of its head,' answers Cavaignac. ' How many wantest thou, of men, of horses,
Page 225 - Something more than is usually found in the looks of women painted itself in those large black eyes of hers, full of expression and sweetness. She spoke to me often at the
Page 265 - The National Convention, after having heard the Report of .the Committees of General and Public Safety, condemns to trial Camille Desmoulins, Herault, Danton, Philippeaux, and Lacroix, charged with complicity with d'Orleans and Dumouriez, with Fabre d'Eglantine and the enemies of the Republic, and
Page 198 - he was perverting France. I killed one man to save a hundred thousand .... I was a Republican before the Revolution, and I never wanted energy." —
Page 163 - The Gospel was constantly open on his table; and when this was noticed, ' The Revolution,' returned he, ' is in the Gospel. Nowhere is the cause of the people more energetically pleaded, or more maledictions heaped on the head of the rich and powerful of this world. Jesus Christ,' continued he, bowing reverentially when he uttered the name, ' Jesus Christ is our master.
Page 179 - oppressed innocence should not assume the attitude of crime and shame. I do not fear the looks of honest men, and I brave those of my enemies." " You have much more resolution than many men,
Page 277 - How many wantest thou, of men, of horses, cannons? Thou shalt have them. Conquerors, conquered or hanged, forward we must.' Which things also, even as the Representatives
Page 273 - The French people recognises the existence of the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul.
Page 265 - having joined in the conspiracy aiming at the re-establishment of monarchy, and the destruction of the national representation and the Republican government. In consequence, it orders their committal to judgment with Fabre
Page 206 - The young men shall go to the battle; the married men shall forge arms, transport baggage and artillery, provide subsistence; the women shall