Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...composed exclusively of the very characters whose influence in the Assembly and with the clubs had most contributed to undermine the throne. First at the head of the most ardent revolutionists, they had become the most moderate, and of course could no longer depend on the popularity they had acquired; for at such critical periods, if a man is once perceived lagging behind or having slackened his pace ever so little, he must consider himself lost. M. de La Fayette and the two Lameths experienced this fate, and were forced to leave France to save their heads from the block! As for M. de Talleyrand, he had the happiness to find himself on safe ground in a foreign land when things approached a decisive crisis. One out of the five private counsellors of Louis XVI. remained in France;--that one was Barnave, and he perished on the scaffold! The version most likely to be the truth, relative to the projected escape of the King from Paris, is, we are led to think, the following:--His counsellors wished him before all to accept the Constitution; this took place in consequence, and on the 18th of September the Constitution was proclaimed in Paris. On the following Sunday the Te Deum was sung at the metropolitan church of Notre Dame, to return thanks to God that the revolution was at length terminated. And, pursuant to the advice of the same counsellors, as soon as the King had freely accepted the Constitution, he transmitted the great tidings to his allies and to all foreign powers. Until then, the interference of foreigners in the affairs of France had been secret, and no foreign government had yet made demonstrations either favourable or hostile to the revolution. Secret agents only were at work to drive the revolutionists into excesses which were likely to extinguis...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...composed exclusively of the very characters whose influence in the Assembly and with the clubs had most contributed to undermine the throne. First at the head of the most ardent revolutionists, they had become the most moderate, and of course could no longer depend on the popularity they had acquired; for at such critical periods, if a man is once perceived lagging behind or having slackened his pace ever so little, he must consider himself lost. M. de La Fayette and the two Lameths experienced this fate, and were forced to leave France to save their heads from the block! As for M. de Talleyrand, he had the happiness to find himself on safe ground in a foreign land when things approached a decisive crisis. One out of the five private counsellors of Louis XVI. remained in France;--that one was Barnave, and he perished on the scaffold! The version most likely to be the truth, relative to the projected escape of the King from Paris, is, we are led to think, the following:--His counsellors wished him before all to accept the Constitution; this took place in consequence, and on the 18th of September the Constitution was proclaimed in Paris. On the following Sunday the Te Deum was sung at the metropolitan church of Notre Dame, to return thanks to God that the revolution was at length terminated. And, pursuant to the advice of the same counsellors, as soon as the King had freely accepted the Constitution, he transmitted the great tidings to his allies and to all foreign powers. Until then, the interference of foreigners in the affairs of France had been secret, and no foreign government had yet made demonstrations either favourable or hostile to the revolution. Secret agents only were at work to drive the revolutionists into excesses which were likely to extinguis...
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