Secret Memoirs of the Royal Family of France, During the Revolution: With Original and Authentic Anecdotes of Contemporary Sovereigns, and Other Distinguished Personages of that Eventful Period, Now First Published from the Journal, Letters, and Conversations of the Princess Lamballe, Volumen2H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826 - 416 páginas |
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Página 86 - Wagons, full of corn and flour, which had been brought into Versailles, formed a train escorted by grenadiers, and surrounded by women and bullies, some armed with pikes, and some carrying long branches of poplar. At some distance this part of the procession had a most singular effect : it looked like a moving forest, amidst which shone pike-heads and gun-barrels.
Página 342 - In the Secret Memoirs, Hyde describes the death blow of the princesse de Lamballe thus: Nearest to her in the mob stood a mulatto, whom she had caused to be baptized, educated, and maintained, but whom, from ill-conduct, she had latterly excluded from her presence. This miscreant struck at her with his halbert. The blow removed her cap. Her luxuriant hair (as if to hide her angelic beauty from the sight of the murderers, pressing tigerlike around to pollute that form, the virtues of which equaled...
Página 339 - ... of freedom, would rush out of their cells, and fall on the knives of the assassins, who would stand ready to attack them. A friend of madame de Lamballe, in the belief that this most treacherous plan would be adopted, contrived to have a billet conveyed to her couched in these words : " Let whatever happen, for God's sake do not quit your cell: you will be spared.
Página 61 - Oh, mamma!" exclaimed the dauphin, whom the queen adored, " Oh, papa !" cried he, looking at the king, " how I should like to see them!" * " Let us go and satisfy the child !" said the king, instantly starting up from his seat. ' The queen took the dauphin by the hand, and they proceeded to the theatre. It was all done in a moment. There was no premeditation on the part of the king or queen ; no invitation on the part of the officers. Had I been asked, I should certainly have followed the queen;...
Página 343 - ... around to pollute that form, the virtues of which equaled its physical perfection), her luxuriant hair fell around and veiled her a moment from view.* An individual, to whom I was nearly allied, seeing the miscreants somewhat staggered, sprang forward to the rescue; but the mulatto wounded him.f The Princess was lost to all feeling from the moment the monster first struck at her. But the demons would not quit their prey. She expired, gashed with wounds.
Página 375 - On the 1 6th of October, Her Majesty was beheaded. Her death was consistent with her life. She met her fate like a Christian, but still like a queen. Perhaps, had Maria Antoinette been uncontrolled in the exercise of her judgment, she would have shown a spirit in emergency better adapted to wrestle with the times than had been discovered by His Majesty. Certain it is she was generally esteemed the most proper to be consulted of the two. From the imperfect idea which many of the persons in office...
Página 86 - Behind his majesty's carriage were several of his faithful guards, some on foot, and some on horseback, most of them uncovered, all unarmed, and worn out with hunger and fatigue ; the dragoons, the Flanders regiment, the hundred Swiss, and the national guards, preceded, accompanied, or followed the file of carriages. "I witnessed this heart-rending spectacle ; I saw the ominous procession. In the midst of all the tumult, clamour, and singing, interrupted by frequent discharges of musketry, which...
Página 58 - Queen who could compensate loyalty and valor ; but the brave soldier found his reward in the fidelity of his service, which formed the glory of his immortality. She assured them she had ever been attached to the army, and would make it her study to recommend every individual, meriting attention, to the King. " Loud bursts of repeated acclamations and shouts of