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045 - Book 7 Chapter 6 To Versailles · 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 seven, The Insurrection of Women, Chapter six to Versailles.
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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 seven, Chapter six to Versailles. For indeed,
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  Speaker 1: about this same moment my yard has halted his draggled
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  Speaker 1: minads on the last hill top are now Versailles and
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  Speaker 1: the Chateau of Versailles, and far and wide the inheritance
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  Speaker 1: of royalty opens to the wondering eye from far on
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  Speaker 1: the right of Vermldi and Saint Germains on lay round
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  Speaker 1: towards Rambouiller on the left, beautiful, all softly embosomed as
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  Speaker 1: if in sadness in the dim moist weather. And near
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  Speaker 1: before us is Versailles, new and old, with that broad
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  Speaker 1: frond and Avenue de Versailles, between stately frond and broad
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  Speaker 1: three hundred feet does men reckon with four rows of elms,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Chateau de Versailles, ending in royal parks
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  Speaker 1: and pleasances, gleaming lakelets, arbors, labyrinths, the Menagerie, and Great
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  Speaker 1: and Little trianon high towered dwellings, leafy pleasant places, where
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  Speaker 1: the gods of this lower world abide. Whence, nevertheless, black
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  Speaker 1: care cannot be excluded whither menadic hunger is even now advancing,
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  Speaker 1: armed with pike tharisee. Yes, Yonder mayde arms where our
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  Speaker 1: straight frondent avenue joined, as you note by two frondent
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  Speaker 1: brother avenues from this hand, and from that spreads out
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  Speaker 1: into plath Royal and Pallace forecourt. Yonder is the sole
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  Speaker 1: des menu. Yonder an august assembly sits regenerating france forecourt,
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  Speaker 1: grand court, court of marble court, narrowing into court. You
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  Speaker 1: may discern next or fancy on the ex extream verge
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  Speaker 1: of which that glass dome visibly glittering like a star
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  Speaker 1: of hope, is the oi de boeuf Yonder Or nowhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world is bread baked for us? But oh, madames,
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  Speaker 1: were not one thing good that our cannons, with d'armoiselle taranga,
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  Speaker 1: and all show of war be put to the rear.
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  Speaker 1: Submission beseems petitioners of a national assembly, we are strangers
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  Speaker 1: in Versailles. Whence to audibly there comes even now sound
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  Speaker 1: as of tocsin, and a general also to put on,
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  Speaker 1: if possible, a cheerful countenance hiding our sorrows, and even
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  Speaker 1: to sing sorrow pitied of the heavens is hateful, suspicious
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  Speaker 1: to the earth. So councils shifty my Yard, haranguing his
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  Speaker 1: mean ads on the heights near Versailles. Cunning Mayyard's dispositions
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  Speaker 1: are obeyed. The draggled insurrectionists advance up the avenue in
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  Speaker 1: three columns among the four Elmros, singing on Ricartre with
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  Speaker 1: what melody they can and shouting vive le roi Versailles.
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  Speaker 1: Though the Elmros are dripping wet, crowds from both sides
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  Speaker 1: with vivon land Parisiennes are paris Ones forever Prickers scouts
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  Speaker 1: have been out towards Paris as the room are deepened.
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  Speaker 1: Whereby his Majesty gone to shoot in the woods of Merdaint,
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  Speaker 1: has been happily discovered and got home, and the General
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  Speaker 1: and Tocsin set a sounding. The bodyguards are already drawn
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  Speaker 1: up in front of the palace grates and look down
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  Speaker 1: the Avenue de Versailles, sulky in wet buckskins. Flandre too
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  Speaker 1: is there, repentant of the opera repast. Also, dragoons dismounted
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  Speaker 1: are there. Finally, major Laquantra, and what he can gather
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  Speaker 1: of the Versailles National Guard. Though it is to be
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  Speaker 1: observed our Colonel, that same sleepless Count de Stang, giving
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  Speaker 1: neither order nor ammunition, has vanished. Most improperly, one supposes
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  Speaker 1: into the eud de Berth, red coated Swiss stand within
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  Speaker 1: the grates under arms. There. Likewise, in their inner room,
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  Speaker 1: all the ministers, samp, Priest, Lamentation, Pompignon, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: are assembled with Monsieur Necker. They sit with him there blank,
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  Speaker 1: expecting what the hour will bring. Monsieur Mounier, though he
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  Speaker 1: answered Mirabeau with a tom mure and affected to slight
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  Speaker 1: the matter, had his own forebodings. Surely, for these four
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  Speaker 1: weary hours he has reclined not on roses. The order
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  Speaker 1: of the day is getting forward. A deputation to his
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  Speaker 1: Majesty seems proper that it might please him to grant
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  Speaker 1: acceptance pure and simple to those constitution articles of ours.
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  Speaker 1: The mixed qualified acceptance, with its peradventures, is satisfactory to
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  Speaker 1: neither gods nor men. So much is clear, and yet
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  Speaker 1: there is more which no man speaks, which all men
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  Speaker 1: now vaguely understand. Disquietude, absence of mind is on every face.
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  Speaker 1: Members whisper uneasily come and go. The order of the
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  Speaker 1: day is evidently not the day's wont till at length
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  Speaker 1: from the outer gates is heard a rustling and justling, shrill,
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  Speaker 1: uproar and squabbling, muffled by walls, which testifies that the
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  Speaker 1: hour is come, rushing and crushing. One hears now then
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  Speaker 1: enter usher at my yard with a deputation of fifteen muddy,
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  Speaker 1: dripping women. Having by incredible industry and aid of all
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  Speaker 1: the macers persuaded the rest to wait out of doors,
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  Speaker 1: National Assembly shall now therefore look its August task directly
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  Speaker 1: in the face. Regenerative constitutionalism has an unregenerate sands Colottism
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  Speaker 1: bodily in front of it, crying bread, bread, shifty my yard,
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  Speaker 1: translating frenzy into articulation, repressive with the one hand, expostulative
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  Speaker 1: with the other, does his best, and really, though not
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  Speaker 1: bread to public speaking, manages rather well in the present
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  Speaker 1: dreadful rarity of grains. A deputation of female citizens has,
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  Speaker 1: as the August Assembly can discern, come out from Paris
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  Speaker 1: to petition. Plots of aristocrats are too evident in the matter.
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  Speaker 1: For example, one Miller has been bribed by a bank
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  Speaker 1: note of two hundred livres not to grind name unknown
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  Speaker 1: to the usher, but fact provable at least indubitable. Further,
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  Speaker 1: it seems the national cockade has been trampled on. Also
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  Speaker 1: there are black cockades or wer all which things will
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  Speaker 1: not an August national Assembly, the Hope of France take
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  Speaker 1: into its wise immediate consideration, and menadic hunger, irrepressible, crying,
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  Speaker 1: black cockades, crying bread, bread adds after such fashion, will
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  Speaker 1: it not, yes, monsieur, as if a deputation to his
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  Speaker 1: Majesty for the acceptance, pure and simple seems proper. How
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  Speaker 1: much more now for the afflicting situation of Paris, for
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  Speaker 1: the calming of this effervescence. President Moonier, with a speedy deputation,
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  Speaker 1: among whom we notice the respectable figure of doctor Yertin,
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  Speaker 1: gets himself forthwith. On March. Vice President shall continue the
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  Speaker 1: order of the day. A chamaillard shall stay by him
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  Speaker 1: to repress the women. It is four o'clock of the
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  Speaker 1: miserablest afternoon when Muonia steps out, Oh experienced Munia, what
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  Speaker 1: an afternoon the last of thy political existence? Better had
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  Speaker 1: it been to fall suddenly unwell while it was yet
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  Speaker 1: time for behold the Esplanade, over all its spacious expanse,
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  Speaker 1: is covered with groups of squalid, dripping women of lank
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  Speaker 1: head male rascality, armed with axes, rusty pikes, old muskets,
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  Speaker 1: iron and shod clubs, baton ferrey which end in knives
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  Speaker 1: or sword blades, a kind of extemporary bill hook looking
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  Speaker 1: nothing but hungry revolt the rain, pause, guard ducorts go
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  Speaker 1: caracoling through the groups amid hissers, irritating and agitating what
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  Speaker 1: is but dispersed here to reunite There innumerable squalid women
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  Speaker 1: beleague of the President and deputation insist on going with him.
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  Speaker 1: Has not his majesty himself, looking from the window, sent
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  Speaker 1: out to ask what we wanted? Bread and speech were
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  Speaker 1: the king epala erroi, that was the answer. Twelve women
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  Speaker 1: are clamorously added to the deputation and march with it
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  Speaker 1: across the Esplanade through dissipated groups cara colling bodyguards and
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  Speaker 1: the pouring rain. Missu Mounia, unexpectedly augmented by twelve women,
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  Speaker 1: copiously escorted by hunger and rascality, is himself mistaken for
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  Speaker 1: a group. Himself and his women are dispersed by Caricolas,
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  Speaker 1: rally again with difficulty among the mud. Finally the grates
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  Speaker 1: are opened. The deputation gets access with the twelve women,
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  Speaker 1: two in it, of which latter five shall even see
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  Speaker 1: the face of His Majesty. Let wet Menadism in the
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  Speaker 1: best spirits. It can expect their return. End of Book seven,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six,