Mirabeau, the Demi-god: Being the True and Romantic Story of His Life and AdventuresT.F. Unwin, 1907 - 404 páginas |
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Mirabeau, the Demi-God: Being the True and Romantic Story of His Life and ... W. R. Trowbridge Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbé Choquard appeal arrived Assembly Bailli Baron de Pierre-Buffière Bignon Briançon brother Brugnière Brutus Château d'If Château de Mirabeau Chevalier de Gassaud Colonel Comte de Mirabeau Comtesse Corsica Court of Love cried d'Aulan daughter death debts Duc de Nivernais Emilie Emilie's escape excited eyes face father favour fear fortune France Gabriel gave Grévin hand happiness heart honour humiliation husband Isle of Rhé Jacobins Joux King letter lettre de cachet liberty Limaye Louis Louise Madame de Cabris Madame de Pailly Madame de Pompadour Mademoiselle Manosque Marck Marie Antoinette Marquis de Lambert Marquis de Marignane Marquis de Mirabeau Marquis de Monnier Marquis de Tourette marriage married mother Mouans mousquetaire never noble once Paris passion pleasure Pontarlier pride prison Provence realised received refuse replied revenge Revolution Rhé Riqueti Rochefort Ruffey Saint-Mauris Saintes scandal seemed Sigrais Sophie thought tion Valette Vassan Versailles Vioménil wife young
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Página 335 - 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 328 - ... expressed his want of money, his dread of innovations, and complained of the uneasiness of the public mind, without suggesting any means of satisfying it. He was nevertheless very much applauded when he delivered at the close of his discourse the following words, which fully described his intentions: " All that can be expected from the dearest interest in the public welfare, all that can be required of a sovereign, the first friend of his people, you may and ought to hope from my sentiments....
Página 335 - Yes, sir," flashed out Mirabeau: "we have heard the intentions that have been suggested to the King; and you, sir, who cannot be his organ with the National Assembly, — you, who have here neither place, nor voice, nor right of speech, — you are not the person to remind us thereof. Go, and tell those who sent you that we are .here by the will of the people, and that we will only be driven hence by the power of the bayonet.
Página 332 - Your mandatary; he who should rather receive them from you, gentlemen — from us, who are invested with a political and inviolable priesthood; from us, in a word, to whom alone twenty-five millions of men are looking for certain happiness, because it is to be consented to, and given and received by all. But the liberty of your discussions is enchained; a military force surrounds the assembly! Where are the enemies of the nation? Is Catiline at our gates? I demand, investing yourselves with your...
Página 352 - I trust we shall never be so unfortunate as to be reduced to the painful extremity of having recourse to Mirabeau...
Página 31 - She has paid her husbands debts, and brought up her sons, who have married in obedience to her wishes. She has reared flocks of geese that would do the Prussian exercise, and turkeys capable of passing a decree...
Página 85 - ... honourable profession of arms ; that all their wars would probably be with England ; that France and that kingdom, were Rome and Carthage, whose rivality more properly than animosity never allowed long intervals of peace ; that the chance of arms might make them prisoners of arms to Messrs Elliot, in which case it would be a happiness to them to meet a private friend in a public enemy ; that he knew many instances of people whose lives were saved by such fortunate events, and it therefore became...
Página v - For the fact is Mirabeau was an exaggeration, and in writing of him one unconsciously falls into an exaggeration of panegyric or invective. There seems to be no middle course between loving and hating him. I frankly admit that I have preferred to see in him only his nobler and what I believe to be his fundamental qualities, and it has been my object to convey my sympathetic impression that he sinned far less than he was sinned against.
Página 317 - ... was most embittered against his son, wrote to his brother that all who had seen her agreed that she was charming and pitied her innocent simplicity. Mirabeau's letters to her, very unlike those he addressed to Sophie, are such as might have been written to an honoured wife. " Dear love," he says, " I have only had one really happy day in my life, that on which I learnt to know you, that on which you gave me your friendship ... no happiness is possible away from you. Every feeling, from the most...
Página 238 - ... and is not unlikely to withhold the letter which I wrote to her from Pontarlier, previously to my flight, and before I was intoxicated with all the philtres of love. I really do not know what is meant by ' a threatening note.' It was a letter of eight pages, and cannot therefore be styled a note. If at my death I am summoned to appear before the sublime Spirit which presides over nature, this will be my answer : ' I am covered with dreadful stains, and thou, great God, alone knowest whether I...