The Romances of Alexandre Dumas: D'Artagnan Edition ...Little Brown and Company, 1899 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbaye Andrée arms asked Assembly August Aunt Angelica Barbaroux Beausire blood Cagliostro called Catherine Chabot Charny Citizen Cléry Commune Convention Council courtyard cried Danton Dauphin death decree door Dumouriez enemies eyes fear Feuillant followed France Gamain Girondists Grangeneuve hand head heard heart Hôtel Hôtel de Ville 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 National Guards o'clock officers palace Paris Patriot Pétion Pitou Place de Grève Pont Neuf poor prisoners Prussians Queen replied Revolution Robespierre Roederer Roland royal family Royalists royalty Saint Santerre sent Sire Suleau Swiss Swiss Guards Temple thee thou took Tuileries Vergniaud voice voted waiting wish woman words
Popular passages
Page 50 - Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! Contre nous de la tyrannie L'étendard sanglant est levé...
Page 53 - 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 52 - 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 ; S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros.
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 409 - For two hours I have been trying to discover if, during my reign, I have deserved the slightest reproach from my subjects. Well, M. de Malesherbes, I swear to you, in the truth of my heart, as a man about to appear before God, that I have constantly sought the happiness of my people, and never indulged a wish opposed to it.
Page 438 - I forgive the authors of my death, and I pray God that the blood you are about to shed may never be required of France.
Page 409 - 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.
Page 23 - ... concentrated energy of his physiognomy, indicated in him a struggle of desperate determination, and predisposed the Assembly for a state of emotion as great and sinister as the orator's countenance. It was one of those days when expectation is at its height. " What," muttered Vergniaud, " is the strange situation in which the National Assembly finds itself?
Page 26 - Now, I read in the constitution : ' If the King puts himself at the head of an army and directs its forces against the nation, or if he does not oppose by a formal act an enterprise of this kind that may be executed in his name, he shall be considered as having abdicated royalty.
Page 157 - 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.