The History of the French Revolution, Volume 2Carey and Hart, 1844 - France |
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Page 54 - I was never afraid that my conduct should be publicly examined ; but it wounds me to the heart to find, in the act of accusation, the imputation that I caused the blood of the people to be spilt ; and, above all, that the calamitous events of the 10th of August are attributed to me. " I confess that the multiplied proofs which I have given at all times of my love for the people, and the manner in which I have always conducted myself, ought, in my opinion, to demonstrate that I was not afraid to expose...
Page 44 - Guards, the insults offered to the national cockade, the refusal to sanction the Declaration of Rights, as well as several constitutional articles; lastly, all the facts which indicated a new conspiracy in October, and which were followed by the scenes of the 5th and 6th; the speeches of reconciliation which had succeeded all these scenes, and which promised a change that was not sincere; the false oath taken at the Federation of the 14th of July; the secret practices of Talon and Mirabeau to effect...
Page 25 - ... at the queen and princesses. Some national guards, who were amused with these indignities, came about him, burst into fits of laughter at every puff of smoke, and used the grossest language ; some of them went so far as to bring chairs from the guard-room to sit and enjoy the sight, obstructing the passage, of itself sufficiently narrow.
Page 76 - Edgeworth has been asked if he recollected to have made this exclamation. He replied, that he could neither deny nor affirm that he had spoken the words. It was possible, he added, that he might have pronounced them without afterwards recollecting the fact, for that he retained no memory of any thing that happened relative to himself at that awful instant. His not, recollecting or recording the words, is, perhaps, the best proof that they were spoken from the impulse of the moment.
Page 64 - A report was circulated that the atrocities of September were to be repeated there, and the prisoners and their relatives beset the deputies with supplications that they would snatch them from destruction. The Jacobins, on their part, alleged that conspiracies were hatching in all quarters to save Louis XVI. from punishment, and to restore royalty. Their anger, excited by delays and obstacles, assumed a more threatening aspect; and the two parties thus alarmed one another by supposing that each harboured...
Page 389 - French army, however, undauntedly proceeded, ' until arriving near Moscow on the 10th September, the famous battle of Borodino was fought, so fatal to both parties, and in which 60,000 are supposed to have perished. Napoleon notwithstanding pressed on to Moscow, from which the Russians retreated,' as also the greater part of the inhabitants, who abandoned it by order of the governor, Count Rostopchin.
Page 364 - Letter, to prove that popular elections were a recurrence to the times of tlie primitive church ; at the same time he was the consecrator of the new bishops. Being admitted into the Jacobin club, he always distinguished himself by his violent motions, and was one of the first to assume the dress of a sans-culotte ; he did not even fear, at the age of seventy, to declare, at the bar of the convention, that " he had been for sixty years of his life a hypocrite, and that the religion, which he had professed...
Page 393 - ... were influenced by the opinion entertained by many officers, who conceived success impossible, chiefly on account of the dreadful weather; the rain was falling in torrents. Dugommier and the Commandant of artillery ridiculed these fears : two columns were formed, and marched against the enemy. The Allied troops, to avoid the effect of the shells and balls, which showered upon the fort, were accustomed to occupy a station at a small distance in the rear of it. The French had great hopes of reaching...
Page 446 - At another time he exclaimed, ' It is just about a year since I was the means of instituting the revolutionary tribunal. I ask pardon of God and man for what I did : my object was to prevent a new September, and not to let loose a scourge of humanity.
Page 55 - Lanjuinais strove in vain to justify the word " conspirators," saying that he meant it to be taken in a favourable sense, and that the 10th of August was a glorious conspiracy. He concluded by declaring that he would rather die a thousand deaths than condemn, contrary to all laws, even the most execrable of tyrants. A great number of speakers followed, and the confusion continually increased.