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020 - Book 3 Chapter 8 Lomenies Death-throes · The French Revolution Volume 1 - The Bastille

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  Speaker 1: The French Revolution, A history by Thomas Carlyle, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: Book three, The Parliament of Paris, Chapter eight, Lomenese Death throes.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter Dan, Book three, Chapter eight, Lomones Death throws. On
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  Speaker 1: the morrow, which is the third of May seventeen eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: An astonished parliament sits convoked listens speechless to the speech
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  Speaker 1: of Despremenil, unfolding the infinite misdeed, deed, of treachery, of
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  Speaker 1: unhallowed darkness such as despotism. Loves denounce it, O Parliament
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  Speaker 1: of Paris, Awaken, France and the universe roll what thunder
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  Speaker 1: barrels of forensic eloquence thou hast with thee too. It
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  Speaker 1: is verily now or never. The Parliament is not wanting
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  Speaker 1: at such juncture. In the hour of his extreme jeopardy,
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  Speaker 1: the lion first incites himself by roaring, by lashing his sides.
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  Speaker 1: So here the Parliament of Paris, on the motion of Despremenil,
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  Speaker 1: a most patriotic oath of the one and all sort,
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  Speaker 1: is sworn with united throat, an excellent new idea, which
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  Speaker 1: in these coming years shall not remain unimitated. Next comes
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  Speaker 1: indomitable declaration almost of the rights of man, at least
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  Speaker 1: of the rights of Parliament, invocation to the friends of
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  Speaker 1: French freedom. In this and in subsequent time, all which,
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  Speaker 1: or the essence of all which is brought to paper
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  Speaker 1: in a tone wherein something of plaintiveness blends with and
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  Speaker 1: tempers heroic valor. And thus having sounded the storm bell
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  Speaker 1: which Paris hears, which all France will hear and hurld
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  Speaker 1: such defiance in the teeth of Lomonie and despotism, the
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  Speaker 1: Parliament retires as from a tolerable first day's work. But
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  Speaker 1: how Lomoni felt to see his coquetry's egg, so essential
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  Speaker 1: to the salvation of France broken in this premature manner
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  Speaker 1: let breeders fancy. Indignant, he clutches at his thunderbolts de
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  Speaker 1: cachet of the seal, and launches two of them, a
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  Speaker 1: bolt for dispreminal, a bolt for that busy ghost Lard
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  Speaker 1: whose service in the second twentieth and strict valuation is
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  Speaker 1: not forgotten. Such bolts, clutched promptly overnight and launched with
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  Speaker 1: the early new morning, shall strike agitated Paris, if not
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  Speaker 1: into requiescence yet into wholesome astonishment. Ministerial thunderbolts may be launched,
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  Speaker 1: but if they do not hit, dispreminal and gost Lard
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  Speaker 1: warned both of them, as is thought, by singing of
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  Speaker 1: some friendly bird elude. The Lomani tipstaves escape disguised through
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  Speaker 1: sky windows over roofs to their own palais de justice.
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  Speaker 1: The thunderbolts have missed. Paris, for the buzz flies abroad
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  Speaker 1: is struck into astonishment, not wholesome. The two martyrs of Liberty,
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  Speaker 1: doff their disguises, don their long gowns, behold in the
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  Speaker 1: space of an hour by aid of ushers and swift runners.
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  Speaker 1: The Parliament, with its councilors, presidents, even peers, sits anew assembled.
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  Speaker 1: The assembled Parliament declares that these its two martyrs, cannot
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  Speaker 1: be given up to any sub lunary authority. Moreover, that
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  Speaker 1: the session is permanent, admitting of no adjournment till pursuit
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  Speaker 1: of them has been relinquished. And so with forensic eloquence,
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  Speaker 1: denunciation and protest, with couriers going and returning, the Parliament
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  Speaker 1: in this state of continual explosion that shall cease neither
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  Speaker 1: night nor day waits the issue awakened, Paris once more
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  Speaker 1: inundates those outer courts boils in floods, wilder than ever,
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  Speaker 1: through all avenues dissonant hubbub. There is jargon as of
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  Speaker 1: Babel in the hour when they were first smitten, as
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  Speaker 1: here with mutual unintelligibility, and the people had not yet dispersed.
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  Speaker 1: Paris city goes through its diurnal epochs of working and slumbering,
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  Speaker 1: And now for the second time, most European and African
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  Speaker 1: mortals are asleep. But here in this whirlpool of words,
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  Speaker 1: sleep falls not. The night spreads her cover lid of
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  Speaker 1: darkness over it in vain. Within as the sound of
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  Speaker 1: mere martyr invincibility tempered with the due tone of plaintiveness.
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  Speaker 1: Without is the infinite expectant hum growing drowsier a little,
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  Speaker 1: so has it lasted for six and thirty hours, but
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  Speaker 1: hark through the dead of midnight. What tramp is this
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  Speaker 1: tramp as of armed men foot and horse guard francaise,
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  Speaker 1: guard suisse, marching heather in silent regularity in the flare
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  Speaker 1: of torchlight. There are sappers too, with axes and crowbars. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: if the doors open not they will be forced. It
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  Speaker 1: is captain Dargu, missioned from Versailles. Dargu, a man of
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  Speaker 1: known firmness, who once forced Prince Conde himself by mere
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  Speaker 1: incessant looking at him to give satisfaction and fight. He now,
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  Speaker 1: with axes and torches, is advancing on the very sanctuary
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  Speaker 1: of justice sacrilegious. Yet what help the man, as a soldier,
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  Speaker 1: looks merely at his orders, impassive, moves forward like an
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  Speaker 1: inanimate engine. The doors open on summons, there need no axes.
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  Speaker 1: Door after door, and now the innermost door opens discloses
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  Speaker 1: the long gowned senators of France, a hundred and sixty seven,
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  Speaker 1: by tale, seventeen of them peers sitting there majestic in
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  Speaker 1: permanent session, were not the men military and of cast iron.
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  Speaker 1: This sight, this silence, re echoing the clank of his
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  Speaker 1: own boots, might stagger him, for the hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven receive him in perfect silence, which some likened that
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  Speaker 1: of the Roman senate overfallen by Brennus, some to that
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  Speaker 1: of a nest of coyners. Surprised by officers of the police,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur said d'agus de par l'aurais. Express order has charged
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  Speaker 1: d'agou with a sad duty of arresting two individuals, Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: du Val D'espremanel and Monsieur go Lard de Monserbert, Which
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  Speaker 1: respectable individuals, as he has not the honor of knowing them,
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  Speaker 1: are hereby invited in the King's name, to surrender themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Profound silence buzz which grows a murmur, we are all
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  Speaker 1: Despremenille's ventures, a voice which other voices repeat. The President
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  Speaker 1: inquires whether he will employ violence. Captain de Gou, honored
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  Speaker 1: with his Majesty's commission, has to execute his Majesty's order,
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  Speaker 1: would so gladly do it without violence? Will in any
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  Speaker 1: caves do it? Grants and August silent space to deliberate
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  Speaker 1: which method they prefer, and thereupon dargout with grave military courtesy,
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  Speaker 1: as withdrawn for the moment, what boots it? August, Senators,
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  Speaker 1: all avenues are closed with fixed bayonets. Your courier gallops
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  Speaker 1: to Versailles through the dewy night, but also gallops back
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  Speaker 1: again with tidings that the order is authentic, that it
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  Speaker 1: is irrevocable. The outer court simmer with idle population, but
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  Speaker 1: Daegu's grenadier ranks stand there as immovable floodgates. There will
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  Speaker 1: be no revolting to deliver you, monsieur, Thus spoke espriminal.
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  Speaker 1: When the victorious Gauls entered Rome, which they had carried
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  Speaker 1: by assault, the Roman senators, clothed in their purple sat
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  Speaker 1: there in the curial chairs with a proud and tranquil countenance,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting slavery or death. Such too is the lofty spectacle
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  Speaker 1: which you, in this hour offer to the universe, an averse,
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  Speaker 1: after having generously with much more of the like, as
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  Speaker 1: can be read in vain O Daspremanel. Here is this
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  Speaker 1: cast iron Captain de Gou, with his cast iron military air,
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  Speaker 1: come back, despotism, constraint, destruction, sit waving in his plumes.
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  Speaker 1: Dispremanel must fall silent heroically give himself up lest worst
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  Speaker 1: before m. Goslard heroically imitates with spoken and speechless emotion.
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  Speaker 1: They fling themselves into the arms of their parliamentary brethren
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  Speaker 1: for a last embrace, and so amid plaudits and plaints
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  Speaker 1: from one hundred and sixty five throats, amid waving sobbings
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  Speaker 1: a whole forest's eye of parliamentary pathos, they are led
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  Speaker 1: through the winding passages to the rear gate, where in
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  Speaker 1: the gray of the morning, two coaches with exempts stand waiting.
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  Speaker 1: There must the victims mount bayonets, menacing behind Dispreminal's stern
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  Speaker 1: question to the populace whether they have courage is answered
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  Speaker 1: by silence. They mount and roll, and neither the rising
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  Speaker 1: of the May sun it is the sixth morning, nor
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  Speaker 1: its setting shall lighten their heart. But they fare forward
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  Speaker 1: continually Despremenal, towards the utmost isles of Saint Marguerite or Hierre,
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  Speaker 1: supposed by some, if that is any comfort, to be
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  Speaker 1: Calypso Island cost Lad, towards the land fortress of Pierre
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  Speaker 1: en Sias extant, then near the city of Lyon. Captain
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  Speaker 1: d'aigu may now therefore look forward to Major's ship to
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  Speaker 1: commandship of the Tuileries, and withal vanish from history, where
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  Speaker 1: nevertheless he has been fated to do a notable thing.
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  Speaker 1: For not only are Dispremenil and gost Lard safe whirling southward,
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  Speaker 1: but the parliament itself has straightway to march out to
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  Speaker 1: that also his inexorable order reaches. Gathering up their long skirts,
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  Speaker 1: they file out the whole hundred and sixty five of them,
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  Speaker 1: through two rows of unsympathetic grenadiers, a spectacle to gods
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  Speaker 1: and men. The people revolt, not they only wonder and grumble.
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  Speaker 1: Also we remark these unsympathetic grenadiers our guard Froanseilles, who
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  Speaker 1: one day will sympathize. In a word, the Palais de
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  Speaker 1: justice is swept clear, the doors of it are locked,
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  Speaker 1: and a gou returns to Versailles with a key in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket, having, as was said, merited preferment. As for
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  Speaker 1: this Parliament of Paris now turned out to the street,
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  Speaker 1: we will, without reluctance, leave it there. The beds of
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  Speaker 1: justice it had to undergo in the coming fortnight at Versailles,
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  Speaker 1: in registering, or rather refusing to register those new hatched edicts,
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  Speaker 1: and how it assembled in taverns and tap rooms there
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of protesting, or hovered disconsolate with outspread skirts,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing where to assemble, and was reduced to lodge
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  Speaker 1: protest with a notary, and in the end to sit
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  Speaker 1: still and a state of forced vacation, and do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: All this natural Now, as the burying of the dead
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  Speaker 1: after battle shall not concern us, the Parliament of Paris
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  Speaker 1: has as good as performed its part doing and misdoing
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  Speaker 1: so far, but hardly further could it stir the world.
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  Speaker 1: Lomony has removed the evil, then not at all, not
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  Speaker 1: so much as the symptom of the evil, scarcely the
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  Speaker 1: twelfth part of the symptom, and exasperated the other eleven.
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  Speaker 1: The antendon of provinces. The military commandants are at their
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  Speaker 1: posts on the appointed eighth of May. But in no parliament,
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  Speaker 1: if not in the single one of Douai, can these
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  Speaker 1: new edicts get registered. Not peaceable signing with ink, but
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  Speaker 1: brow beating, blood shedding. Appeal to primary club law against
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  Speaker 1: these bailliages, against this plenary court exasperated theme. As everywhere
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  Speaker 1: shows face of battle. The provincial noblesse are of her party,
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  Speaker 1: and who ever hates Lomani in the evil time, with
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  Speaker 1: her attorneys and tipstaves, she enlists and operates down even
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  Speaker 1: to the populace ad Renn. In Brittany, where a historical
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  Speaker 1: Bertrand de Montville is antendon. It has passed from fatal
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  Speaker 1: continual dueling between the military and gentry, to street fighting,
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  Speaker 1: to stone volleys and musket shot, and still the edicts
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  Speaker 1: remain unregistered. The afflicted Breton send remonstrance to Lomani by
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  Speaker 1: a deputation of twelve, whom, however, Lomanie, having heard them,
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  Speaker 1: shuts up in the bastille. A second larger deputation he
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  Speaker 1: meets by his scouts on the road and persuades or
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  Speaker 1: frightens back. But now a third largest deputation is indignantly
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  Speaker 1: sent by many roads refused audience. On arriving it meets
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  Speaker 1: to take Council invites Lafayette and all patriot Breton in
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  Speaker 1: Paris to assist, agitates itself becomes the Breton Club, first
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  Speaker 1: germ of the Jacobins Socara. So many as eight parliaments
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  Speaker 1: get exiled. Others might need that remedy, but it is
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  Speaker 1: one not always easy of appliance. At Grenoble, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: where a mounier a bahnave have not been idle, the
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  Speaker 1: parliament had due order by Lettre de Cachet to depart
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  Speaker 1: and exile itself. But on the morrow, instead of coaches
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  Speaker 1: getting yoked, the alarm bell burst forth ominous and peels
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  Speaker 1: and booms all day. Crowds of mountaineers rush down with axes,
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  Speaker 1: even with firelocks, whom most ominous of all the soldiery
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  Speaker 1: shows no eagerness to deal with axe overhead. The poor
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  Speaker 1: general has to sign capitulation to engage that the Lettre
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  Speaker 1: de Cachet shall remain unexecuted and a beloved parliament stay
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  Speaker 1: where it is. Bessinsan di jon rouen Bordeaux are not
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  Speaker 1: what they should be. A poe in burn where the
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  Speaker 1: old commandant had failed. The new one, a gramond native
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  Speaker 1: to them, is met by a procession of townsmen with
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  Speaker 1: the cradle of Henri Cartre. The palladium of their town
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  Speaker 1: is conjured as he venerates this old tortoise shell in
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  Speaker 1: which the Great Honery was rocked. Not to trample on Beronese.
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  Speaker 1: Leberty is informed with all that his Majesty's cannon are
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  Speaker 1: all safe in the keeping of his Majesty's faithful burghers
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  Speaker 1: of power, and do now lie pointed on the walls there,
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  Speaker 1: ready for action. At this rate, your grand bayages are
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  Speaker 1: likely to have a stormy infancy. As for the plenary court,
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  Speaker 1: it has literally expired in the berth. The very courtiers
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  Speaker 1: looked shy at it. Old Marshal Brollied declined the honor
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  Speaker 1: of sitting therein assaulted by a universal storm of mingled,
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  Speaker 1: ridicule and execration. This poor plenary court met once and
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  Speaker 1: never any second time. Distracted country contention hiss is up
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  Speaker 1: with forked hydra tongues whereesoever poor Lumani sets his foot.
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  Speaker 1: The Commandant, a commissioner of the king, says, weber enter
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  Speaker 1: one of these parliaments to have an edict registered. The
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  Speaker 1: whole tribunal will disappear and leave the Commandant alone with
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  Speaker 1: the Clerk and first President. The edict registered and the
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  Speaker 1: commandant gone, the whole tribunal hastens back to declare such
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  Speaker 1: registration null. The highways are covered with grand deputations of
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  Speaker 1: parliaments proceeding to Versailles to have their registers expunged by
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  Speaker 1: the King's hand, or returning home to cover a new
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  Speaker 1: page with a new resolution. Still more audacious, such is
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  Speaker 1: the France of this year seventeen eighty eight. Not now
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  Speaker 1: a golden or paper age of hope, with its horse racings,
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  Speaker 1: balloon flyings and finer sensibilities of the heart. Ah gone
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  Speaker 1: is that its golden effulgence paled be darkened in this
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  Speaker 1: singular manner, brewing towards precter natural weather. For as in
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  Speaker 1: that reck storm of poor levigenie at Saint Pierre. One
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  Speaker 1: huge motionless cloud say of sorrow and indignation, girdles our
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  Speaker 1: whole horizon. Streams up hairy copper, edged over a sky
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  Speaker 1: of the color of lead, motionless itself, but small clouds
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  Speaker 1: as exiled parliaments and such like parting from it, fly
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  Speaker 1: over the zenith with the velocity of birds, till at last,
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  Speaker 1: with one loud howl, the whole four winds be dashed together,
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  Speaker 1: and all the world exclaim, there is the tornado to
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  Speaker 1: le monde secria voila ulurigan for the rest. In such circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: the successive loan very naturally remains unfilled. Neither, indeed, can
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  Speaker 1: that impost of the second twentieth, at least not on
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  Speaker 1: strict fabuation be levied to good purpose. Lenders, says Weber,
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  Speaker 1: in his hysterical vehement manner, are afraid of ruin. Tax gatherers,
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  Speaker 1: of hanging the very clergy turn away their face convoked
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  Speaker 1: in extraordinary assembly. They afford no gratuitous gift don gratui,
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  Speaker 1: if it be not that of advice. Here too, instead
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  Speaker 1: of cash is clamor for states general O lominie Brianne,
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  Speaker 1: with thy poor, flimsy mind, all bewildered, and now three
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  Speaker 1: actual quarteries on thy worn out body, who art like
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  Speaker 1: to die of inflammation, provocation, milk, diet d'Art reviva and
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  Speaker 1: malady best untranslated and presidest over at France with innumerable
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  Speaker 1: actual couteries, which also is dying of inflammation and the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Was it wise to quit the bosky verges of Brienne
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  Speaker 1: and thy new ashlar chateau there, and what it held
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  Speaker 1: for this soft were those shades and lawns sweet, the
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  Speaker 1: hymns of poetasters, the blandishments of high rouged graces, and
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  Speaker 1: always this and other Feller's soft mirror lay nothing deeming
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  Speaker 1: himself for thee a questionable sham priest could be so
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  Speaker 1: happy in making happy, and also hadst thou known it
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  Speaker 1: in the military school hard by their sat studying mathematics,
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  Speaker 1: a dusky complexion taciturned boy under the name of Napoleon Buonaparte,
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  Speaker 1: with fifty years of effort and one final dead lift struggle,
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  Speaker 1: thou hast made an exchange. Thou hast got thy robe
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  Speaker 1: of office, as Hercules had his nessus shirt on the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth of July of this seventeen eighty eight, there fell,
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  Speaker 1: on the very edge of harvest, the most frightful hail storm,
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  Speaker 1: scattering into wild waste the fruits of the year, which
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  Speaker 1: had otherwise suffered grievously by drought for sixty leagues round Paris, especially,
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  Speaker 1: the ruin was almost total. To so many other evils,
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  Speaker 1: then there is to be added that of dearth, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: of famine some days before this hailstorm on the fifth
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  Speaker 1: of July, and still more decisively, some days after it
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  Speaker 1: on the eighth of August. Lomonie and answers that the
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  Speaker 1: States General are actually to meet in the following month
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  Speaker 1: of May, till after which period this of the Plenary
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  Speaker 1: Court and the rest shall remain postponed. Further, as in Lamani,
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  Speaker 1: there is no plan of forming or holding these most
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  Speaker 1: desirable states generals. Thinkers are invited to furnish him with
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  Speaker 1: one through the medium of discussion by the public press.
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  Speaker 1: What could a poor minister do? There are still ten
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  Speaker 1: months of respite reserved. A sinking pilot will fling out
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  Speaker 1: all things his very biscuit bags, lead, log, compass and
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  Speaker 1: quadrant before flinging out himself. It is on this principle
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  Speaker 1: of sinking and the incipient delirium of despair that we
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  Speaker 1: explain likewise the almost miraculous invitation to thinkers, invitation to
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  Speaker 1: chaos to be so kind as billed out of its
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  Speaker 1: tumultuous driftwood, an arc of escape for him. In these cases,
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  Speaker 1: not invatingation, but command has usually proved serviceable. The Queen
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  Speaker 1: stood that evening, pensive in a window with her face
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  Speaker 1: turned towards the garden. The Chef de Goblet had followed
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  Speaker 1: her with an obsequious cup of coffee and then retired
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  Speaker 1: till it was sipped. Her majesty beckoned Dame Campan to approach.
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  Speaker 1: Grand Dieu murmured she, with the cup in her hand,
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  Speaker 1: what a piece of news will be made public to day?
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  Speaker 1: The king grant states general, then raising her eyes to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: If Campan were not mistaken, she added, tis a first
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  Speaker 1: beat of the drum of ill omen for France. There's
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  Speaker 1: no bless will ruin us. During all that hatching of
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  Speaker 1: the plenary court, while l'amagnon looked so mysterious, Bessanval had
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  Speaker 1: kept asking him one question whether they had cash, to
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  Speaker 1: which as l'amagnon always answered, on the faith of Lamonie
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  Speaker 1: that the cash was safe. Judicious Bessoon val rejoined that
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  Speaker 1: then all was safe. Nevertheless, the melancholy fact is that
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  Speaker 1: the royal coffers are almost getting literally void of coin. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: apart from all other things, this invitation to thinkers and
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  Speaker 1: the great change now at hand are enough to arrest
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  Speaker 1: the circulation of capital and forward only that of pamphlets.
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  Speaker 1: A few thousand gold lewis are now all of money,
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  Speaker 1: or money's worth. It remains in the King's treasury. With
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  Speaker 1: another movement, as of desperation, Lomoni invites Necker to come
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  Speaker 1: and be controller of finances. Necker has other work in
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  Speaker 1: view than controlling finances for Lomani. With a dry refusal,
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  Speaker 1: he stands taciturn, awaiting his time. What shall a desperate
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: prime minister do? He has grasped at the strong box
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of the King's theater. Some lottery has been set on
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  Speaker 1: foot for those sufferers by the hailstorm. In his extreme necessity,
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  Speaker 1: Lummony lays hands even on this to make provision for
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  Speaker 1: the passing day. On any terms will soon be impossible.
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  Speaker 1: On the sixteenth of August, poor Weber heard at Paris
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  Speaker 1: and Versailles hawker's with a hoarse, stifled tone of voice,
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  Speaker 1: va Eta fe surd drawling and snuffling through the streets,
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  Speaker 1: and edicts concerning payments. Such was the soft title Riverol
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  Speaker 1: had controlled for it. All payments at the Royal Treasury
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  Speaker 1: shall be made henceforth three fifths in cash, and the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: remaining two fifths m paper bearing interest. Poor Weber almost
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: swooned at the sound of these cracked voices with their
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  Speaker 1: bodeful raven note, and will never forget the effect it
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  Speaker 1: had on him. But the effect on Paris, on the
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  Speaker 1: world generally, from the dens of stock brokerage, from the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: heights of political economy, of necharism and philosophism, from all
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  Speaker 1: articulate and inarticulate throats, rose, hootings and howlings such as
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: ere had not yet heard. Zedian itself may be imminent.
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  Speaker 1: Monseigneur d'Artois, moved by Duchess Polignac, feels called to wait
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  Speaker 1: upon her majesty and explain frankly what crisis matters stand
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  Speaker 1: in the Queen wept. Brienne himself wept, for it is
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  Speaker 1: now visible and palpable that he must go remains only
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  Speaker 1: that the court, to whom his manners and garrulities were
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  Speaker 1: always agreeable, shall make his fall soft. The grasping old
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  Speaker 1: man has already got his Archbishop of Toulouse exchanged for
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the richer one of sense, And now, in this hour
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  Speaker 1: of pity, he shall have the coadjutorship for his nephew,
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  Speaker 1: hardly yet of due age, a dame ship of the
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  Speaker 1: Palace for his niece, a regiment for her husband, for himself,
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  Speaker 1: a red cardinal's hat, a coupe de bois cutting from
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  Speaker 1: the royal forests, and on the whole from five to
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand livres of revenue. Only his brother, the
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  Speaker 1: Comte de Brienne, shall still continue war minister, buckled round
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  Speaker 1: with such bolsters and huge feather beds of promotion, Let
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  Speaker 1: him now fall as soft as he can. And so
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  Speaker 1: Lumoni departs rich if court titles and money bonds can
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  Speaker 1: enrich him. But if these cannot, perhaps the poorest of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: all extant men his stat by the people of Versailles.
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  Speaker 1: He drives forth to Jardis, southward to Brienne for recovery
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  Speaker 1: of health, then to Nice, to Italy, but shall return,
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  Speaker 1: shall glide to and fro tremulous, faint, twinkling, fallen on
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  Speaker 1: awful times, till the guillotine snuff out his weak existence
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  Speaker 1: alas worse, for it is blown out or choked out, fouly,
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  Speaker 1: pitiably on the way to the guillotine in his palace
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of sense, Rude Jacobin Balis made him drink with them
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  Speaker 1: from his own wine cellars, feast with them from his
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  Speaker 1: own larder, And on the morrow morning the miserable old
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: man lies dead. This is the end of Prime Minister
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Cardinal Archbishop Lomanie de Brienne. Flimsy immortal, was seldom fated
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  Speaker 1: to do as weight to a mischief, to have a
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  Speaker 1: life as despicable, envied, and exit as frightful, fired as
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the phrases, with ambition, blown like a kindled rag, the
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  Speaker 1: sport of winds not this way, not that way, but
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: have always stretched towards such a powder mine which he kindled.
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  Speaker 1: Let us pity the hapless Lomonie and forgive him, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible, forget him. End of Book three,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight,