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046 - Book 7 Chapter 7 At 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 seven at 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 seven at Versailles. But already
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  Speaker 1: pallis Athene in the shape of Demoiselle Tarangna is busy
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  Speaker 1: with flounder and the dismounted dragoons. She and such women
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  Speaker 1: as are fittest, go through the ranks, speak with an
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  Speaker 1: earnest jocosity, clasp rough troopers to their patriot bosom, crushed
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  Speaker 1: down spontoons and musketoons with soft arms, can a man
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  Speaker 1: that were worthy of the name of man attack famishing
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  Speaker 1: patriot women. One reads that Taragna had bags of money,
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  Speaker 1: which he distributed over flandre furnished by whom alas with
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  Speaker 1: money bags, one seldom sits on insurrectionary cannon calumnious royalism.
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  Speaker 1: Tarnya had only the limited earnings of her profession of
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate female money. She had not but brown locks, the
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  Speaker 1: figure of a heathen goddess, and an eloquent tongue and heart. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Antoine in groups and troops is continually arriving wetted
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  Speaker 1: sulky with pikes and impromptu bill hooks, driven thus far
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  Speaker 1: by popular fixed idea, So many hursute figures driven hither
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  Speaker 1: in that manner. Figures that have come to do they
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  Speaker 1: know not what figures that have come to see it done?
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  Speaker 1: Distinguished among all figures, Who is this of gaunt stature
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  Speaker 1: with leaden breastplate, though a small one, bushy in red,
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  Speaker 1: grizzled locks, nay, with long tile beard. It is your
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  Speaker 1: dan unjust dealer in mules, a dealer no longer, but
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  Speaker 1: a painter's lay figure playing truant this day, from the
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  Speaker 1: necessities of art comes his long tile beard. Whence his
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  Speaker 1: leaden breastplate, unless indeed he were some hawker licensed by
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  Speaker 1: leaden badge, may have come will perhaps remain forever a
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  Speaker 1: historical problem. Another soul among the people we discern pair Adam,
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  Speaker 1: Father Adam, as the group's name him to ask, better
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  Speaker 1: known as bull voiced Marquis Saint de Rouge, hero of
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  Speaker 1: the Vito, a man that has had losses and deserved them.
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  Speaker 1: The tall Marquis, emitted some days ago from Nimbo, looks
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  Speaker 1: peripetatically on this scene from under his umbrella not without interest,
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  Speaker 1: all which persons and things hurled together, as we see
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  Speaker 1: Pallas Athene busy with flander, patriotic Versailles National Guard short
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  Speaker 1: of ammunition and deserted by destaying their colonel and commanded
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  Speaker 1: by laquant of their major. Then caracolling bodyguards, sour dispirited,
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  Speaker 1: with their buckskins wet, and finally this flowing sea of
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  Speaker 1: indignat squalor may they not give rise to occurrencies? Behold, however,
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  Speaker 1: the twelve she Deputies return from the chateau without President Mounier, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: but radiant with joy, shouting life to the king and
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  Speaker 1: his house. Apparently the news are good, Madame, news of
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  Speaker 1: the best. Five of us were admitted to the internal
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  Speaker 1: splendors to the royal presence. This slim Darmoiselle Louis en Chabret,
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  Speaker 1: worker in sculpture, aged only seventeen, as being of the
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  Speaker 1: best looks and address her we appointed speaker on whom,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed on all of us, His Majesty looked nothing
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  Speaker 1: but graciousness. Nay, when Louis, on addressing him, was like
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  Speaker 1: to faint, he took her in his royal arms and
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  Speaker 1: said gallantly it was well worth, while elevalubien l'a painne
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  Speaker 1: consider our women, what a king His words were of comfort,
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  Speaker 1: and that only there shall be vision sent to Paris.
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  Speaker 1: If provision is in the world, grains shall circulate free
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  Speaker 1: as air. Millers shall grind or do worse, while their
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  Speaker 1: millstones endure, and nothing be left wrong which a restorer
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  Speaker 1: of French liberty can write good news these but to
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  Speaker 1: wet mean ads all too incredible, there seems no proof.
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  Speaker 1: Then words of comfort are words only which will feed
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  Speaker 1: nothing O miserable people betray'd by aristocrats who corrupt thy
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  Speaker 1: very messengers in his royal arms, Mademoiselle Luissant, in his arms,
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  Speaker 1: thou shameless, minxt worthy of a name that shall be nameless. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: thy soft is soft. Ours is rough with hardship, and
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  Speaker 1: well wetted, waiting here in the rain. No children hast
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  Speaker 1: thou hungry at home? Only alabaster dolls that weep, not
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  Speaker 1: the traitorous to the lantern. And so poor Louis en
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  Speaker 1: chabris no asservation or shrieks availing her fair slim damsel
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  Speaker 1: late in the arms of royalty has a guard around
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  Speaker 1: her neck, and furibund amazon at each end is about
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  Speaker 1: to perish. So when two bodyguards gallop up indignantly dissipating
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  Speaker 1: and rescue her, the miscredited twelve hasten back to the
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  Speaker 1: chateau for an answer, in writing, nay, behold a new
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  Speaker 1: flight of mean ads, with Monsieur Bruno Bastille volunteer, as
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  Speaker 1: impressed commandant at the head of it. These also will
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  Speaker 1: advance to the great of the grand court and see
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  Speaker 1: what is toward human patience in wet buckskins, hazards limits.
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  Speaker 1: Bodyguard Lieutenant Monsieur de Sauvontniere, for one moment, lets his
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  Speaker 1: temper long provoke, long pent give way. He not only
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  Speaker 1: dissipates these latter mean ads, but caracoles and cuts and
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  Speaker 1: indignantly flourishes of Monsieur Bruno, the impressed Commandant, and finding
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  Speaker 1: great relief in it, even chases him, Bruno flying nimbly,
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  Speaker 1: though in a pirouette manner, and now with sword also
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  Speaker 1: drawn at which sight of wrath and victory to other bodyguards.
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  Speaker 1: For wrath is contagious and to bent bodyguards is so solacing,
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  Speaker 1: do likewise give way, give chase with brandished saber, and
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  Speaker 1: in the air make horrored circles, so that poor Bruno
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  Speaker 1: has nothing for it but to retreat with accelerated nimbleness
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  Speaker 1: through rank after rank, Parthian like fencing, as he flies
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  Speaker 1: above all, shouting lustily on nulais assassinaire. They are getting
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  Speaker 1: us assassinated. Shameful three against one growls come from the
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  Speaker 1: Laquantrian ranks, bellowings. Lastly, shots Savonnier's arm is raised to
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  Speaker 1: strike the bullet of a Laquantrian musket chatters it. The
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  Speaker 1: brandished saber jingles down harmless. Bruno has escaped. This duel
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  Speaker 1: well ended, but the wild howl of war is everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: beginning to pipe. The amazons recoil. Saint Antoine has its
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  Speaker 1: cannon pointed full of grape shot. Thrice supplies the lit flambeaux,
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  Speaker 1: which Thrice refuses to catch. The touch holes are so wetted,
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  Speaker 1: and voices cry are at they only part tom Bancour Stop.
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  Speaker 1: It is not yet time, monsieurs of the Guarde de corps.
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  Speaker 1: Ye had orders not to fire. Nevertheless, too of ye
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  Speaker 1: limp dismounted, and one war horse lies slain. Were it
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  Speaker 1: not well to draw back out of shot range? Finally
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  Speaker 1: to file off into the interior, if in so filing off.
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  Speaker 1: There did a musketoon or two discharge itself at these
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  Speaker 1: armed shop keepers, hooting and crowing. Could man wonder? Draggled
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  Speaker 1: ay or white cockades of an enormous size would to
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  Speaker 1: heaven they were got exchange for tricolo ones. Your buckskins
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  Speaker 1: are wet, your heart's heavy, go and return not. The
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  Speaker 1: bodyguards file off as we hint, giving and receiving shots,
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  Speaker 1: drawing no life blood, leaving boundless indignation. Some three times
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  Speaker 1: in the thickening dusk, a glimpse of the misseeen at
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  Speaker 1: this or the other portal, saluted, always with execrations with
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  Speaker 1: a hue of lead let. But a bodyguard show face.
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  Speaker 1: He is hunted by rascality, for instance, poor Monsieur de
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  Speaker 1: Mouchiton of the Scotch Company, owner of the slain war horse,
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  Speaker 1: and has to be smuggled off by Versailles captains or
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  Speaker 1: rusty firelocks belch after him, shivering asunder his hat. In
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  Speaker 1: the end, by superior order, the bodyguards, all but the
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  Speaker 1: few on immediate duty disappear, or as it were, abscond
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  Speaker 1: and march under cloud of night to Rambouille. We remark
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  Speaker 1: also that the Versailles have now got ammunition all afternoon
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  Speaker 1: the official person could find none, till in these so
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  Speaker 1: critical moments a patriotic sub lieutenant set a pistol to
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  Speaker 1: his ear, and would thank him to find some, which
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  Speaker 1: he thereupon s succeeded in doing. Likewise, that frond are
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  Speaker 1: disarmed by pallas Athene says openly it will not fight
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  Speaker 1: with citizens, and for token of peace has exchanged cartridges
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  Speaker 1: with the versayes sans Colottism is now among mere friends,
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  Speaker 1: and can circulate freely, indignant at bodyguards, complaining also considerably
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  Speaker 1: of hunger. End of Book seven, Chapter seven