Paris in 1789-94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the GuillotineG. Allen, 1902 - 551 páginas |
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Paris in 1789-94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine John Goldworth Alger Vista completa - 1902 |
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Adieu arrested asked Assembly assignats August Barère brother café Carlyle church citizens CITOYENNE Cloots commissaries Commune Conciergerie condemned Convention Couthon Danton daughter dear death Décadi December decree denounced deputies Drouet Duplay England English execution father faubourg St February Floréal Fouquier francs French French Revolution gardens Girondins guillotined heart Hôtel Hôtel de Ville husband imprisoned Jacobin club July June King letter liberty living Louis XVI Luxembourg Madame Roland Marat March Marie Antoinette married Mélanie Moniteur months moreover mother municipality national guards November October Paine Palais Royal Paris patriotic petition Place Vendôme Pluviôse president priest prisoners probably Public Safety Committee received release reports republic republican Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre royal rue St sans-culottes scaffold Security Committee sent September 1793 streets thee Thermidor thou tion trial Tuileries Varennes Ventôse victims Villenave wife women writing wrote
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Página 533 - It all stands pretty fair in my head, nor do I mean to investigate much more about it, but to splash down what I know in large masses of colours, that it may look like a smoke-and-flame conflagration in the distance, which it is.
Página 536 - 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 406 - Mourons pour la patrie: C'est le sort le plus beau, le plus digne d'envie.
Página 534 - Revolution ; uttered her tremendous doom's-voice against a world of human shams, proclaiming, as with the great Last Trumpet, that shams should be no more. I often call that a celestial-infernal phenomenon, — the most memorable in our world for a thousand years ; on the whole, a transcendent revolt against the Devil and his works (since shams are all and sundry of the Devil, and poisonous and unendurable to man).
Página 94 - Cloots and myself. We were both put out of the convention by the same vote, arrested by the same order, and carried to prison together the same night. He was taken to the guillotine, and I was again left.
Página 535 - ... degree. What is equally important to be said— he possesses in no less perfection that among the qualities necessary for his task, seemingly the most opposite to these, and in which the man of poetic imagination might be thought likeliest to be deficient; the quality of the historical day-drudge. A more pains-taking or accurate investigator of facts, and sifter of testimonies, never wielded the historical pen.
Página 533 - I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo, or entirely forbear to do (as is likeliest), but this I could tell the world: You have not had for a hundred years any book that came more direct and flamingly sincere from the heart of a living man...
Página 138 - Popish relics by the queen's commissioners, in obedience to the twenty-third article of her injunctions; "making atonement, as it were, for the many holy men and holy women that were not long before roasted to death there." During the whole, "such were the shoutings and applause of the vulgar sort, as if it had been the sacking of some hostile city.
Página 533 - Of the general effect which his works had on me, I shall say nothing : it was the same as they have had, thank God, on thousands of my class and of every other. But that book above all first recalled me to the overwhelming and yet...
Página 82 - ... is an English translation of this interesting document: To-day, July 20, 1792, year IV of Liberty, at 8 o'clock in the evening, conformably to the decree of the National Assembly of yesterday, in presence of the delegation of the said assembly, composed of Messrs. Brun, president of the delegation of the said assembly; Bravet, Cambon, Rouyer, Brival, Deydier; Gay Vernon, bishop of the Department of...