La Comtesse de Charny, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1890 - France |
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Abbaye Andrée arms asked Assembly August Aunt Angelica Barbaroux Beausire blood Cagliostro called Carrousel Square Catherine Chabot Champ de Mars Charny Citizen City Hall Cléry Commune Council courtyard cried Danton Dauphin death decree door Dumouriez enemies eyes fear Feuillant followed France Gamain Girondists Grangeneuve hand head heard heart hour hundred killed King King's Lafayette Liberty Longwy looked Louis Sixteenth Madame Campan Madame Elizabeth Madame Roland Madame Royale Maillard Majesty Manuel Marat Marie Antoinette Marsillians massacre Monsieur Billot Monsieur de Charny Monsieur Gilbert municipal National Guards o'clock officers palace Paris Patriot Pétion Pitou Place de Grève poor prisoners Prussians Queen replied Revolution Robespierre Roederer Roland royal family Royalists royalty Saint Santerre sent Sire Suleau Swiss Swiss Guards Temple terrible thee thou took Tuileries Vergniaud voice voted waiting wish woman words
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Page 49 - Nous entrerons dans la carrière Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus ; Nous y trouverons leur poussière Et la trace de leurs vertus ! Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre Que de partager leur cercueil, Nous aurons le sublime orgueil De les venger ou de les suivre ! .... Aux armes, citoyens ! etc.
Page 48 - Tremblez, tyrans, et vous, perfides, L'opprobre de tous les partis ; Tremblez ! vos projets parricides, Vont enfin recevoir leur prix ! Tout est soldat pour vous combattre...
Page 153 - Sire," replied the President Vergniaud, " you may rely on the firmness of the National Assembly ; its members have sworn to die in defence of the rights of the people, and of the constituted authorities ; it will remain firm at its post : we will die rather than abandon it.
Page 53 - YE sons of freedom, wake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears, and hear their cries! Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms! to arms! ye brave! Th" avenging sword unsheath ; March on!
Page 46 - Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! Contre nous de la tyrannie L'étendard sanglant est levé...
Page 430 - In the course of the morning the King said to me : " You will give this seal to my son and this ring to the Queen, and assure her that It is with pain I part with it. This little packet contains the hair of all my family; you will give her that, too. Tell the Queen, my dear sister, and my children, that, although I promised to see them again this morning, I have resolved to spare them the pang of so...
Page 47 - Français, pour nous, ah ! quel outrage ! Quels transports il doit exciter ! C'est nous qu'on ose méditer De rendre à l'antique esclavage ! Aux armes, citoyens ! etc. Quoi ! ces cohortes étrangères Feraient la loi dans nos foyers...
Page 172 - Several officials entered to conduct the king and queen to the temporary lodgings which had been prepared for them near by. The king made a gesture signifying that he wished to remain a while longer; for the business on hand was of considerable interest to him, it being the selection of a new ministry. The Minister of War, the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Finance were soon nominated. They were the same men recently dismissed by the king, — Roland, Clavieres, and Servan. Danton...
Page 438 - I forgive the contrivers of my death, and I pray God that the blood you are about to shed may not be visited upon France.
Page 406 - my means of defence : I shall not dwell upon them. In speaking to you, perhaps for the last time, I declare that my conscience reproaches me with nothing, and that my counsel have told you nothing but the truth.