History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, Volume 3Henry G. Bohn, 1848 - France |
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... assemblies , was placarded through the capital . In issuing these orders , the government declared that the com- mittee , by directing the national guard to line the streets and to march in procession with officers at their head , had ...
... assemblies , was placarded through the capital . In issuing these orders , the government declared that the com- mittee , by directing the national guard to line the streets and to march in procession with officers at their head , had ...
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... Assembly will soon organize , is about to unite every one . There is not a single citizen in France to whatever opinion he may belong , who does not rally round the principle of the country before every thing , and who does not render ...
... Assembly will soon organize , is about to unite every one . There is not a single citizen in France to whatever opinion he may belong , who does not rally round the principle of the country before every thing , and who does not render ...
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... assembly , composed of Robespierre , Dan- ton , Fabre , Pache , and some other principal members of the Commune and the Convention , were assembled at Charenton , in a house where the plots of the 20th of June and the 10th of August had ...
... assembly , composed of Robespierre , Dan- ton , Fabre , Pache , and some other principal members of the Commune and the Convention , were assembled at Charenton , in a house where the plots of the 20th of June and the 10th of August had ...
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... Assembly . Isnard resumed the president's chair , resolved to regain his ascendency over the majority , or to die at his post . Lanjuinais boldly de- manded permission to speak . Lanjuinais was not a Girondist . He possessed neither the ...
... Assembly . Isnard resumed the president's chair , resolved to regain his ascendency over the majority , or to die at his post . Lanjuinais boldly de- manded permission to speak . Lanjuinais was not a Girondist . He possessed neither the ...
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... assemblies , and the sedition of the people , as that of the soldier under fire . The oppression of the Girondists , on the evening before , by La Montagne and the people , had exas- perated him . It was enough that a party was ...
... assemblies , and the sedition of the people , as that of the soldier under fire . The oppression of the Girondists , on the evening before , by La Montagne and the people , had exas- perated him . It was enough that a party was ...
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Page 334 - The theory of a revolutionary government," said he, " is as new as the Revolution which engendered it ; the aim of a constitutional government is to preserve the Republic, that of a revolutionary government is to found it. " Revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of victorious and peaceable liberty. " The revolutionary government owes to good citizens every national protection. It owes death to the enemies of the people. " It ought to steer between two...
Page xiv - At this moment a violent and imperative knocking was heard at the door of an upper tribune, which was not entirely filled. On the door being opened, a number of men rushed in, well provided with arms, and who appeared to have just come from a combat. Several of them forced their way to the front seats, and pointed their muskets at the deputies below. Some of these weapons were also turned in the direction of the royal party. Immediately the persons near the Duchess of Orleans...
Page 450 - ... those lovers of annihilation ; above all, the crushing ascendency of a man who planted his popularity in the fundamental instinct of the human species, and which gained to itself the conscience of the nation, like a high priest, perhaps to seize on the nation itself the next day, like...
Page 247 - ... pollute the soil of liberty. May the perfidious English be attacked in all directions : may the whole republic form but one volcano to overwhelm them with its devouring lava! May the infamous isle, which produced these monsters, whom humanity disowns, be...
Page 179 - It was near at hand, for it was already midnight. The deputy Bailleul, their colleague at the Assembly, proscribed like them, but who had escaped the proscription, and was concealed in Paris, had promised to send them from without, on the day of their trial, a last repast, triumphant or funereal, according to the sentence ; to rejoice at their freedom, or commemorate their death. Bailleul, though invisible, kept his promise through the agency of a friend. The funereal supper was set out in the large...
Page xiii - Frenchmen, give to the world the example Paris has given to France. Prepare yourselves, by order and confidence in yourselves, for the institutions which are about to be given to you. " The Provisional Government desires a Republic, pending the ratification of the French people, who are to be immediately consulted. Neither the people of Paris nor the Provisional Government desire to substitute their opinion for the opinions of the citizens at large, upon the definite form of government which the...
Page 433 - The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual appeal to justice ; this idea is then social and republican.
Page 266 - ... reproached with being the wife of Roland, and the friend of his accomplices. With a proud look of triumph Madame Roland admitted her guilt in both instances, spoke with tenderness of her...
Page 303 - Beneath the choir were buried the princes and princesses of the first race, and some of the third. Hugues Capet, Philip the Bold, Philip the Handsome. They rent away their rags of silk, and threw them on a bed of auick lime.