The French Revolutionary Epoch: Being a History of France from the Beginning of the First French Revolution to the End of the Second Empire, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1878 |
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Página 97 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Página 167 - the king of France, swear to employ all the powers delegated to me by the constitutional act of the state, to maintain the constitution decreed by the national assembly, and accepted by me.
Página 85 - ... increase the importance of the subject and throw light upon it, perhaps, along with the new light, slacken our progress. It suffices here to have made it clear that the pretended utility of a privileged order for the public service is nothing more than a chimera; that with it all that which is burdensome in this service is performed by the Third Estate; that without it the superior places would be...
Página 222 - The sound of which will make the blood tingle in men's veins; and whole Armies and Assemblages will sing it, with eyes weeping and burning, with hearts defiant of Death, Despot and Devil.
Página 23 - ... articulate voice, and, when they rise to their feet, they show a human face; they are, in fact, men...
Página 180 - Lady that touched the wheel-spoke was the Queen of France ! She has issued safe through that inner Arch, into the Carrousel itself; but not into the Rue de 1'Echelle. Flurried by the rattle and rencounter, she took the right hand not the left ; neither she nor her Courier knows Paris ; he indeed is no Courier, but a loyal stupid ci-devant Bodyguard disguised as one. They are off, quite wrong, over the Pont Royal and River ; roaming disconsolate in the Rue du Bac ; far from the Glass-coachman, who...
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Página 179 - Lady shaded in broad gypsy-hat, and leaning on the arm of a servant, also of the Runner or Courier sort, stands aside to let it pass, and has even the whim to touch a spoke of it with her baduie, - light little magic rod which she calls baduie, such as the Beautiful then wore.
Página 63 - XVI., who returns home after some years' absence, on being asked what change he noticed in the nation, replied, " Nothing, except that what used to be talked about I Barbier, II. ibid. ; III. 955 (May, 1751). "The Icing is robbed by all the setgnion «.ound him, especially on his journeys to his different chateaux, which are frequent
Página 23 - Certain savage-looking beings, male and female, are seen in the country, black, livid, and sunburnt, and belonging to the soil which they dig and grub with invincible stubbornness. They seem capable of articulation, and, when they stand erect, they display human lineaments. They are, in fact, men. They retire at night to their dens where they live on black bread, water, and roots.