The History of the Bastile: And of Its Principal Captives (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Davenport, R. A.

9781330721049: The History of the Bastile: And of Its Principal Captives (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330721047 ISBN 13: 9781330721049

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The History of the Bastile: And of Its Principal Captives

Reign of Henry III. Continued-conspiracy of Saloede Francis de Rosieres - Peter de Belloy - Francis le Breton Bernard palissy-daring plots of the League - Henry III. Expelled from Paris - The Bastile surrenders to Guise - Bussi lo Clerc appomted governor - Damours - James de la Guesle _reign of Henry iv.-members of the parliament arrested -president de Harlay - Potier de Blancmesnil - The family of Seguier - Speeches of Henry IV. - Louis Seguier - James Gillot - Outrage committed by the Council of Sixteen - It is punished by the Duke of Mayenne - Henry IV. Enters Paris Surrender of the Bastile - Du Bourg - Treasure deposited in the Bastile by Henry.

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Excerpt from The History of the Bastile: And of Its Principal Captives

The execution of a plan so frequently falls immeasurably short of the author's original conception, that some wit, of whom I have forgotten the name, has likened them to the cry of an Oriental fruit-hawker: "In the name of the Prophet - figs!" I can bear witness how much what is purposed goes beyond what is accomplished. I began loftily, and perhaps the reader will say, that I have ended with - figs. At the outset I designed to link, in some measure, the history of the Bastile with that of France, and to trace the rise and progress of those parties, factions, and sects, which furnished inmates to the prisons of state. But I soon discovered that the contracted limits of a single volume would not admit of my plan being carried into execution. By much enlarging the page, and by making, at no small cost, a very considerable addition to the number of pages, the publisher has liberally endeavoured to give me the means of rendering the work less imperfect than it would otherwise have been; but I have, nevertheless, been exceedingly cramped by the want of adequate space.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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