The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl, Volume 3 |
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Page 252 - Buonaparte, but lie suppressed the u during the first campaign in Italy. His motives for so doing were merely to render the spelling conformable with the pronunciation, and to abridge his signature. He signed Buonaparte even after the famous 13th Vendemiaire.
Page 420 - Were you not servant to the ex-constituent Menou ? " — " Yes. " — "Another. " To Vely, " Were you not architect to Madame ? " — " Yes ; but I was dismissed in 1788." — "Another." To Gondrecourt, "Had you not your father-in-law at the Luxembourg?
Page 196 - I hope to emulate his firmness at the last hour. I weep only for my children : I hope that one day, when they have regained their rank, they may be reunited to you, and feel the blessing of your tender care.
Page 427 - Nous allons en Paradis." Innumerable instances of heroism occurred, especially among the female sufferers. Madame de Jourdain was led out to be drowned, with her three daughters : a soldier wished to save the youngest, who was very beautiful; she threw herself into the water to share the fate of her mother, but, falling on a heap of dead, could not sink. " Push me in," she exclaimed—" the water is not deep enough!
Page 195 - The unhappy mother made no reply. Urged anew to explain herself, she said with extraordinary emotion, " I thought that human nature would excuse me from answering such an imputation, but I appeal from it to the heart of every mother here present." This noble and simple reply affected all who heard it. In the depositions of the witnesses, however, all was not so bitter for Marie Antoinette. The brave d'Estaing, whose enemy she had been would not say anything to inculpate her, and spoke only of the...
Page 373 - They bore him off the field on a litter made of Cossacks' pikes, and carried him to a cottage at a short distance, which, however, was so much exposed to the fire that they were obliged, after...
Page 94 - The young men shall go to battle; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and...
Page 355 - ... affection — to filial piety — to infancy — to youth — to manhood — to old age — to misfortune — to agriculture — to industry — to our ancestors — to posterity — to happiness.
Page 196 - At first the Queen, consulting only her own sense of dignity, had resolved on her trial to make no other reply to the questions of her judges than — " Assassinate me as you have already assassinated my husband ! " Afterwards, however, she determined to follow the example of the King, exert herself in her defence, and leave her judges without any excuse or pretext for putting her to death.
Page 470 - Guards appearing in all the avenues which led to the square. The moment was terrible. Ten pieces of the artillery of the Convention were placed in battery, while the cannoneers of the municipality, with their lighted matches in their hands, stood beside their guns on the opposite side. But the authority of the law prevailed : the decree of the legislature was read by torchlight, and the insurgent troops refused to resist it.