Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of RoyaltyC. Scribner's Sons, 1891 - 401 páginas |
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arrested arrived Barnave Camille Desmoulins carriage Champ-de-Mars Clermont-en-Argonne command Constitution Count courage court cried crowd crown Damas daughter Dauphin death decree departure door dragoons Drouet Duke de Choiseul Duke of Orleans enter faithful Favras Fersen fête France French fugitives garden Goguelat heart honor hope horses hussars insults Jacobins journey King and Queen King's Lafayette Lamballe Long live longer Louis XVI Madame Campan Madame de Raigecourt Madame de Tourzel Madame Elisabeth Madame Elisabeth wrote Madame Royale Majesty Marie Antoinette Marie Louise Marquis de Bouillé Mirabeau monarch Montmédy morning National Assembly National Guard night nobles o'clock old régime palace Paris passed patriotism person Pétion Pont-de-Somme-Vesle priests Prince Princess Princess de Lamballe received Revolution revolutionary revolutionists royal family royalist royalty Saint Cloud Sainte Menehould sentiments soul sovereign Stenay theatre three body-guards throne tion town tribune troops Tuileries Valory Varennes voice woman wrote to Madame
Pasajes populares
Página 66 - I, King of the French, swear to employ all the power delegated to me by the constitutional act of the State, in 2 maintaining the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by me.
Página 65 - ... Lafayette. Laying one hand on his heart, and lifting the other toward heaven, he pronounces these words: " We swear to be always faithful to the nation, the law, and the King; to maintain with all our power the Constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the King; to protect, comformably with the laws, the security of person and property, the traffic in grains and other provisions in the interior of the kingdom, the collection of public taxes under whatever form they exist,...
Página 65 - We swear to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king ; and to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen, by the indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Página 23 - A curious crowd are sur rounding a man who, mounted on a table, is declaiming vehemently against the perfidy of the court, the pride of the nobles, the cupidity of the rich, the inertia of the legislators, and who concludes, applauded by some and criticised by others, by proposing incendiary motions.
Página 253 - I should be ashamed of it, if I did not hope that my brother would understand that, in my position, I am obliged to do and to write all that is required of me.
Página 109 - May God not abandon us wholly ; it is to that we must limit our hopes. I have no taste for martyrdom ; but I feel that I should be very glad to have the certainty of suffering it rather than abandon one iota of my faith. I hope that if I am destined to it, God will give me strength. He is so good, so good ! he is a Father, so concerned for the true welfare of his children that we ought to have all confidence in him. Were you not touched on the Epiphany with God's goodness in calling the Gentiles...
Página 76 - ... from individual assassinations to pillage, from the downfall of the throne to the dissolution of the empire, has to be expected.