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Speaker 1: Volume two, Chapter ten, Part one of Memoirs of the
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Speaker 1: Court of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campin. This LibriVox recording
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Speaker 1: is in the public domain ten Part one. During the
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Speaker 1: month of July, the correspondence of Monsieur Bertrand de Moulville
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Speaker 1: with the King and Queen was most active. Monsieur de Marcillie,
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Speaker 1: formerly a lieutenant of the Saint Fuice of the Guard,
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Speaker 1: was the bearer of the letters. He came to me
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Speaker 1: the first time with a note from the Queen directed
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Speaker 1: to Messie Bertran himself. In this note, the Queen said,
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Speaker 1: address yourself with full confidence to Madame Campan, the conduct
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Speaker 1: of her brother in Russia has not at all influenced
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Speaker 1: her sentiments. She is wholly devoted to us, and if
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Speaker 1: hereafter you should have anything to say to us verbally,
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Speaker 1: you may rely entirely upon her self devotion and discretion.
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Speaker 1: The mobs, which gathered almost nightly in the Faubours alarmed
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Speaker 1: the Queen's friends. They entreated her not to sleep in
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Speaker 1: her room on the ground floor of the tuillis. She
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Speaker 1: removed to the first floor, to a room which was
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Speaker 1: between the King's apartments and those of the Dauphin, being
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Speaker 1: awake always from daybreak, she ordered that neither the shutters
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Speaker 1: nor the window blinds should be closed, that her long
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Speaker 1: sleepless nights might be the less weary. About the middle
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Speaker 1: of one of these nights, when the moon was shining
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Speaker 1: into her bed chamber, she gazed at it and told
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Speaker 1: me that in a month she should not see that
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Speaker 1: moon unless freed from her chains and beholding the king
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Speaker 1: at liberty. She then imparted to me that all was
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Speaker 1: concurring to deliver them, but that the opinions of their
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Speaker 1: intimate advisers were alarmingly at variance, that some vouched for
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Speaker 1: complete success while others pointed out insurmountable dangers. She added
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Speaker 1: that she possessed the itinerary of the march of the
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Speaker 1: Princess and the King of Prussia, that on such a
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Speaker 1: day they would be at Verdeux. On another day, at
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Speaker 1: such a place, that Lille was about to be besieged,
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Speaker 1: but that Monsieur de Gie, three asterisks, whose prudence and
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Speaker 1: intelligence the King as well as herself highly valued, alarmed
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Speaker 1: them much respecting the success of that siege, and made
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Speaker 1: them apprehensive that even were the commandant devoted to them.
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Speaker 1: The civil authority, which by the constitution gave great powers
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Speaker 1: to the mayors of towns, would overrule the military commandant.
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Speaker 1: She was also very uneasy as to what would take
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Speaker 1: place at Paris during the interval, and spoke to me
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Speaker 1: upon the King's want of energy, but always in terms
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Speaker 1: expressive of her veneration of his virtues and her attachment
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Speaker 1: to himself. The King said, she is not a coward.
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Speaker 1: He possesses abundance of passive courage, but he is overwhelmed
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Speaker 1: by an awkward shyness, a mistrust of himself which proceeds
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Speaker 1: from his education as much as from his disposition. He
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Speaker 1: is afraid to command, and above all things dreads speaking
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Speaker 1: to assembled numbers. He lived like a child and always
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Speaker 1: ill at ease under the eyes of leuis Quin's until
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Speaker 1: the age of twenty one. This constraint confirmed his timidity.
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Speaker 1: Circumstanced as we are, A few well delivered words addressed
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Speaker 1: to the Parisians who are devoted to him would multiply
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Speaker 1: the strength of our party a hundredfold. He will not
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Speaker 1: utter them. What can we expect from those addresses to
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Speaker 1: the people which he has been advised to post up,
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Speaker 1: Nothing but fresh outrages. As for myself, I could do anything,
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Speaker 1: and would appear on horseback if necessary. But if I
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Speaker 1: were really to begin to act, that would be furnishing
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Speaker 1: arms to the King's enemies. The cry against the Austrian
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Speaker 1: and against the sway of a female would become general
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Speaker 1: in France. And moreover, by showing myself, I should render
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Speaker 1: the king a mere nothing. A queen who is not
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Speaker 1: regent ought, under these circumstances, to remain passive and prepare
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Speaker 1: to die. The garden of the Tillers was full of
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Speaker 1: madmen who insulted all who seemed to side with the court.
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Speaker 1: The life of Marie Antoinette was cried under the queen's windows.
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Speaker 1: Infamous plaits were anne to the book, the hawkers showed
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Speaker 1: them to the passers by. On all sides were heard
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Speaker 1: the joyous outcries of a people in a state of delirium,
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Speaker 1: almost as frightful as the explosion of their rage. The
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Speaker 1: queen and her children were unable to breathe the open
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Speaker 1: air any longer. It was determined that the garden of
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Speaker 1: the Tuileri should be closed. As soon as this step
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Speaker 1: was taken, the Assembly decreed that the whole length of
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Speaker 1: the terrace. Detuillery belonged to it, and fixed the boundary
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Speaker 1: between what was called the National ground and the Coblundt
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Speaker 1: Ground by a tricolored ribbon stretched from one end of
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Speaker 1: the terrace to the other. All good citizens were ordered
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Speaker 1: by notices affixed to it not to go down into
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Speaker 1: the garden under pain of being treated in the same
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Speaker 1: manner as Foulon and bersi note by Madame Campin. A
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Speaker 1: young man who did not observe this written order went
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Speaker 1: down into the garden furious. Outcries, threats of la Lanterne,
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Speaker 1: and the crowd of people which collected upon the terrace
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Speaker 1: wore earned him. Of his imprudence and the danger which
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Speaker 1: he ran. He immediately pulled off his shoes, took out
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Speaker 1: his handkerchief, and wiped the dust from off their souls.
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Speaker 1: The people cried out, Bravo the good citizen. Forever he
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Speaker 1: was carried off in triumph. And note the shutting up
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Speaker 1: of the Tuiliri did not enable the queen and her
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Speaker 1: children to walk in the garden. The people on the
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Speaker 1: terrace sent forth dreadful howls, and she was twice compelled
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Speaker 1: to return to her apartments. In the early part of August,
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Speaker 1: many zealous persons offered the king money. He refused considerable sums,
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Speaker 1: being unwilling to injure the fortunes of individuals. Monsieur de
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Speaker 1: la Feerte, intendant of the Manipleizia, brought me a thousand louis,
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Speaker 1: requesting me to lay them at the feet of the Queen.
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Speaker 1: He thought she could not have too much money at
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Speaker 1: so perilous a time, and that every good Frenchman should
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Speaker 1: hasten to place all his ready money in her hands.
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Speaker 1: She refused this sum, and other of much greater amount,
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Speaker 1: which were offered to her note by Madame Coppin. Monsieur Ougi,
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Speaker 1: my brother in law, receiver general of the finances, offered her,
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Speaker 1: through the medium of his wife, a portfolio containing one
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand crowns in paper money. On this occasion, the
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Speaker 1: Queen said the most affecting things to my sister, expressive
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Speaker 1: of her happiness at having contributed to the fortunes of
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Speaker 1: such faithful subjects as herself and her husband, but declined
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Speaker 1: accepting her offer and note. However, a few days afterwards
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Speaker 1: she told me she would accept of Monsieur de la
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Speaker 1: Fette's twenty four thousand francs, because they would make up
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Speaker 1: a sum which the King had to expend. She therefore
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Speaker 1: directed me to go and receive those twenty four thousand francs,
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Speaker 1: to add them to the one hundred thousand francs she
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Speaker 1: had placed in my hands, and to change the hall
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Speaker 1: into essigna to increase their amount. Her orders were executed
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Speaker 1: and the essigna were delivered to the King. The Queen
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Speaker 1: informed me that Madame Dezeabbet had found a well meaning
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Speaker 1: man who had engaged to gain over Pition by the
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Speaker 1: bribe of a large sum of money, and that that
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Speaker 1: deputy would, by a preconcerted signal inform the King of
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Speaker 1: the success of the project. His Majesty soon had an
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Speaker 1: opportunity of seeing Pition, and on the Queen asking him
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Speaker 1: before me if he was satisfied with him. The King replied,
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Speaker 1: neither more nor less satisfied than usual. He did not
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Speaker 1: make the concerted signal, and I believe I have been cheated.
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Speaker 1: The Queen then condescended to explain the whole of the
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Speaker 1: enigma to me. Pition said she was while talking to
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Speaker 1: the King, to have kept his finger fixed upon his
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Speaker 1: right eye for at least two seconds. He did not
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Speaker 1: even put his hand up to his chin, said the King.
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Speaker 1: After all, it is but so much money stolen. The
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Speaker 1: thief will not boast of it, and the affair will
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Speaker 1: remain a secret. Let us talk of something else. He
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Speaker 1: turned to me and said, you're her father was an
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Speaker 1: intimate friend of Monda, who now commands the National Guard.
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Speaker 1: Describe him to me. What ought I to expect from him?
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Speaker 1: I answered that he was one of his Majesty's most
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Speaker 1: faithful subjects, but at the same time that he possessed
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Speaker 1: a great deal of loyalty, he had likewise very little sense,
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Speaker 1: and that he was involved in the constitutional vortex. I understand,
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Speaker 1: said the King. He is a man who would defend
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Speaker 1: my palace and my person, because that is enjoined by
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Speaker 1: the constitution, which he has sworn to support, but who
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Speaker 1: would fight against the party in favor of sovereign authority.
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Speaker 1: It is well to know this with certainty. On the
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Speaker 1: next day, the Princess den Abel sent for me very
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Speaker 1: early in the morning. I found her sitting upon a
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Speaker 1: sofa opposite a window, looking out upon the pont rooyal
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Speaker 1: She then occupied that apartment of the pavilion of Flora,
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Speaker 1: which was on the level with that of the Queen.
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Speaker 1: She desired me to sit down by her, her Highness,
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Speaker 1: at a writing desk upon her. You have had many enemies,
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Speaker 1: said she. Attempts have been made to deprive you of
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Speaker 1: the Queen's favor. They have been far from successful. Do
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Speaker 1: you know that even I, myself, not being so well
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Speaker 1: acquainted with you as the Queen, was rendered suspicious of you,
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Speaker 1: And that upon the arrival of the court at the Tuillerie,
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Speaker 1: I gave you a companion to be a spy upon you,
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Speaker 1: and that I had another belonging to the police, placed
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Speaker 1: at your door. Note by Madame Campent. This was Monsieur
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Speaker 1: de pet Blanc, who afterwards owned it to me, telling
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Speaker 1: me that though he did accept of this base employment,
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Speaker 1: it was because he was sure that my acquaintance consisted
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Speaker 1: only of royalists, and that moreover, he did not doubt
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Speaker 1: the sincerity of my sentiments. And note, I was assured
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Speaker 1: that you received five or six of the most virulent
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Speaker 1: deputies of the chiers Eta. But this report came from
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Speaker 1: that woman belonging to the wardrobe, who was lodged above you.
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Speaker 1: In short, said the Princess. Persons of integrity have nothing
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Speaker 1: to fear from the evil disposed when they belong to
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Speaker 1: so upright a prince as the King. As to the Queen,
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Speaker 1: she knows you and has loved you ever since she
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Speaker 1: came to France. You shall judge of the King's opinion
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Speaker 1: of you. It was yesterday evening decided in the family
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Speaker 1: circle that at a time when the tuillery is likely
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Speaker 1: to be attacked, it was necessary to have the most
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Speaker 1: faithful account of the opinions and conduct of all the
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Speaker 1: individuals composing the Queen's service. The King takes the same
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Speaker 1: precaution on his part, respecting all who are about him.
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Speaker 1: He said, there was with him a person of great
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Speaker 1: integrity to whom he would commit this inquiry, and that
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Speaker 1: with regard to the Queen's household, you must be spoken to,
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Speaker 1: that he had long studied your character, and that he
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Speaker 1: esteemed your veracity. The Princess had the names of all
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Speaker 1: who belonged to the Queen's chamber upon her desk. She
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Speaker 1: asked me for information respecting each individual. At such such
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Speaker 1: a moment, honor and duty efface, even the recollection of enmity.
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Speaker 1: I was fortunate in having none but the most favorable
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Speaker 1: information to give. I had to speak of my avowed
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Speaker 1: enemy in the Queen's chamber, of her who most wished
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Speaker 1: to make me responsible for my brother's political opinions. The Princess,
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Speaker 1: as the head of the chamber, could not be ignorant
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Speaker 1: of this circumstance, but as the female in question, who
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Speaker 1: idolized the King and Queen, would not have hesitated to
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Speaker 1: sacrifice her life in order to save theirs, and as
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Speaker 1: possibly her attachment to them, united to considerable narrowness of
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Speaker 1: intellect and a limited education, contributed to her jealousy of me,
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Speaker 1: I spoke of her in the highest terms. The Princess
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Speaker 1: wrote as I dictated, and occasionally looked at me with astonishment.
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Speaker 1: When I had done, I entreated her Highness to write
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Speaker 1: down in the margin that the lady alluded to was
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Speaker 1: my declared enemy. She embraced me, saying, Ah, write it.
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Speaker 1: We should not record an injustice which must be forgotten.
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Speaker 1: We came to a man of genius who was much
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Speaker 1: attached to the Queen, and I described him as a
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Speaker 1: man born solely for disputation, showing himself out of mere
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Speaker 1: spirit of contradiction, an aristocrat with democrats, and a democrat
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Speaker 1: among aristocrats, but still a man of probity and well
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Speaker 1: affected to his sovereign. The Princess said she knew many
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Speaker 1: persons of that disposition, and that she was delighted. I
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Speaker 1: had nothing to say against this man, because she herself
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Speaker 1: had placed him about the Queen. The whole of Her
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Speaker 1: Majesty's chamber, which consisted entirely of persons of fidelity, gave
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Speaker 1: throughout all the dreadful convulsions of the Revolution, proofs of
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Speaker 1: the greatest prudence and the most absolute self devotion. The
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Speaker 1: same cannot be said of the ante chambers. With the
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Speaker 1: exception of three or four, all the servants of that
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Speaker 1: class were outrageous. Jacobin and I saw on those occasions
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Speaker 1: the necessity of composing the private household of princes of
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Speaker 1: persons completely separated from the class of the The situation
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Speaker 1: of the royal family was so horrid during the months
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Speaker 1: which immediately preceded the tenth of August, that the Queen
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Speaker 1: was worked up to long for the coming of the crisis,
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Speaker 1: whatever might be its issue. She frequently said that a
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Speaker 1: long confinement in a tower by the sea side, which
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Speaker 1: seemed to her less intolerable than those feuds in which
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Speaker 1: the weakness of her party daily announced an inevitable catastrophe.
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Speaker 1: Note by the editor. A few days before the tenth
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Speaker 1: of August, the squabbles between the Royalists and jacco Bay,
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Speaker 1: and between the Jacobay and the Constitutionals increased in warmth.
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Speaker 1: Among the latter, those men who defended the principles they
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Speaker 1: professed with the greatest talent, courage, and constancy, were at
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Speaker 1: the same time the most exposed to danger. Mougeois relates
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Speaker 1: the following anecdote. The question of abdication was discussed with
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Speaker 1: a degree of frenzy in the Assembly. Such of the
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Speaker 1: Deputies as voted against that scandalous discussion were abused, ill treated,
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Speaker 1: and surrounded by a set lessons. They had a battle
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Speaker 1: to fight at every step they took, and at length
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Speaker 1: they did not dare to sleep in their own houses.
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Speaker 1: Of this number were renewed de baucheron Frontiere Gerarde and Vaublanc.
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Speaker 1: Girardin complained of having been strucken one of the lobbies
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Speaker 1: of the Assembly. A voice cried out to him, say
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Speaker 1: where you were struck Where? Replied Gerardiner, who what a question?
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Speaker 1: Behind do assassins, ever, strike otherwise history of Marie Antoinette
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Speaker 1: and note not only were their majesties prevented from breathing
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Speaker 1: the open air, but they were also insulted at the
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Speaker 1: very foot of the altar the Sunday before the last
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Speaker 1: day of the monarchy, while the royal family went through
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Speaker 1: the gallery to the chapel, half the soldiers of the
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Speaker 1: National Guard exclaimed, long live the King, and the other
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Speaker 1: half no, no king. Down with the veto. And on
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Speaker 1: that day at Vesper's the choristers preconcerted to increase the
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Speaker 1: loudness of their choices threefold in an alarming manner when
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Speaker 1: they chanted the words deposuit potentes de sede in the Magnificat.
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Speaker 1: Incensed at such an infamous proceeding, the royalists, in their
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Speaker 1: turn thrice exclaimed et reginam after the Domini salvum fac regem.
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Speaker 1: The tumult during the whole time of divine service was
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Speaker 1: excessive at length arrived that terrible night of the tenth
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Speaker 1: of August. On the preceding evening, Pition went to the
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Speaker 1: Assembly and informed it that preparations were making for a
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Speaker 1: great insurrection. On the following day that the Tocsin would
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Speaker 1: sound at midnight, and that he feared he had not
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Speaker 1: sufficient means for resisting the attack which was about to
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Speaker 1: take place. Upon this information, the Assembly passed to the
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Speaker 1: order of the day. Pition, however, gave an order for
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Speaker 1: repelling force by force. Monsieur Manda was armed with this order, and,
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Speaker 1: finding his fidelity to the King's persons supported by what
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Speaker 1: he can considered the law of the state, he conducted
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Speaker 1: himself in all his operations with the greatest energy. On
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Speaker 1: the evening of the ninth I was present at the
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Speaker 1: King's supper. While his Majesty was giving me various orders,
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Speaker 1: we heard a great noise at the door of the apartment.
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Speaker 1: I went to see what was the cause of it,
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Speaker 1: and I found the two sentinels fighting. One said, speaking
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Speaker 1: of the King, that he was hearty in the cause
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Speaker 1: of the constitution and would defend it at the peril
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Speaker 1: of his life. The other maintained that he was an
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Speaker 1: encumbrance to the only constitution suitable to a free people.
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Speaker 1: They were near destroying each other. I returned with a
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Speaker 1: countenance which betrayed my emotion. The King desired to know
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Speaker 1: what was going forward at his door I could not
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Speaker 1: conceal it from him. The Queen said she was not
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Speaker 1: at all surprised at it, and that more than half
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Speaker 1: the guard belonged to the Jaccubain party. The talks and
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Speaker 1: sounded at midnight. The Swiss were drawn up like real walls,
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Speaker 1: and in the midst of their soldier like silence, which
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Speaker 1: formed a striking contrast with the perpetual din of the
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Speaker 1: town guard. The king informed Monsieur de Gie three Asterists,
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Speaker 1: an officer of the staff, of the plan of defense
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Speaker 1: laid down by General Baumenil. Monsieur de Gie three Asterists
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Speaker 1: said to me, after this private conference, put your jewels
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Speaker 1: and money into your pockets. Our dangers are unavoidable, the
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Speaker 1: means of defense are unavailing. Safety might be obtained from
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Speaker 1: some degree of energy in the King, but that is
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Speaker 1: the only virtue in which he is deficient. An hour
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Speaker 1: after midnight, the Queen and Madame and Zabet said they
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Speaker 1: would lie down on a sofa in a closet in
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Speaker 1: the outresil, the windows of which commanded the courtyard of
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Speaker 1: the Tuidrie. The Queen told me the King had just
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Speaker 1: refused to put on his quilted under waistcoat that he
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Speaker 1: had consented to wear it on the fourteenth of July
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Speaker 1: because he was merely going to a ceremony where the
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Speaker 1: poniard of an assassin was to be apprehended, but that
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Speaker 1: on a day on which his party might fight against
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Speaker 1: the revolutionists, he thought there was something cowardly in preserving
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Speaker 1: his life by such means. During this time, Madame Elizabet
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Speaker 1: disengaged herself of some of her clothing which encumbered her.
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Speaker 1: In order to lie down on the sofa, she took
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Speaker 1: a Cornelian pin out of her tippet, and before she
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Speaker 1: laid it down on the table, she showed it to
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Speaker 1: me and desired me to read a motto engraved upon
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Speaker 1: it round a stalk of lilies. The words were oblivion
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Speaker 1: of injuries, pardon for offenses I much fear, added that
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Speaker 1: virtuous Princess, this maxim has but little influence among our enemies,
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Speaker 1: but it ought not to be less dear to us.
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Speaker 1: On that account note by Madame Campan. The Princess did
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Speaker 1: not take this precious trinket when she quitted the Queen
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Speaker 1: Saint Rossel into what hands did it fall? It would
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Speaker 1: adorn the richest treasury the Exalted piety of Madame Elizabet
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Speaker 1: gave to all she said, and did a noble character
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Speaker 1: descriptive of that of her soul. On the day on
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Speaker 1: which this worthy descendant of Saint Louis was sacrificed, the executioner,
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Speaker 1: in tying her hands behind her back, raised up one
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Speaker 1: of the ends of her handkerchief in front. Madame Erizabet,
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Speaker 1: with calmness and with a voice which seemed not to
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Speaker 1: come from the earth, said to him, in the name
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Speaker 1: of modesty, cover my bosom. I learned this trait of
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Speaker 1: heroism from Madame de Sirilie, who was condemned the same
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Speaker 1: day as the princess, but who obtained a respite at
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Speaker 1: the moment of the execution. Madame de Mommalay her relation,
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Speaker 1: declaring that her cousin was pregnant, and note the Queen
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Speaker 1: desired me to sit down by her. The two princesses
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Speaker 1: could not sleep. They were conversing mournfully upon their situation.
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Speaker 1: When a musket was discharged in the courtyard, they both
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Speaker 1: quitted the sofa, saying, there is the first shot, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: will not be the last. Let us go up to
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Speaker 1: the king. The queen desired me to follow her. Several
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Speaker 1: of her women went with me. At four o'clock, the
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Speaker 1: Queen came out of the King's chamber and told us
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Speaker 1: she had no longer any hope, that Monsieur Mondal, who
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Speaker 1: had gone to the Hotel de Ville to receive further orders,
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Speaker 1: had just been assassinated, and that the people were at
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Speaker 1: that time carrying his head about the streets. Day came
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Speaker 1: the King, the Queen, Madame, Elizabet Madame, and the Daufain
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Speaker 1: went down to pass through the ranks of the sections
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Speaker 1: of the National Guard. The cry of vive l' roois
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Speaker 1: was heard from a few places. I was at a
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Speaker 1: window on the garden sides. I saw some of the
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Speaker 1: gunners quit their posts, go up to the King and
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Speaker 1: thrust their fists in his face, insulting him by the
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Speaker 1: most brutal language. Monsieur de Salvert and Monsieur de Briege
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Speaker 1: drove them off in a spirited manner. The King was
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Speaker 1: as fale as a corpse. The royal family came in again.
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Speaker 1: The Queen told me that all was lost, that the
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Speaker 1: King had showed no energy, and that this sort of
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Speaker 1: review had done more harm than good. Note by the
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Speaker 1: editor Monteois, in his history of Marie Antoinette, gives an
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Speaker 1: account of the affair of the chateau, which he says
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Speaker 1: was furnished by an eye witness. The narrator thus expresses himself,
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Speaker 1: Monsieur Madin being gone, the command devolved on Monsieur de
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Speaker 1: la Chenet. I then perceived a considerable degree of bustle
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Speaker 1: in the interior of the castle. The National Guard and
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Speaker 1: the Swiss Guards, being called to their posts, all went
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Speaker 1: to them in the greatest order. The interior of the apartments,
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Speaker 1: the staircases and vestibules were occupied by soldiers. The posts
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Speaker 1: of the courtyards were distributed, and cannon were brought from
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Speaker 1: different parts of the great court. All these preparations announced
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Speaker 1: the most terrible resolves. They seemed to express a determination
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Speaker 1: to offer a vigorous resistance. I turned my eyes away
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Speaker 1: and lamented first the manner, and then the inn afficiency
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Speaker 1: of the means employed. The manner because I saw a
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Speaker 1: scene of bloodshed and murders without number in preparation. The inefficiency, because,
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Speaker 1: in spite of the wild and criminal scheme of an
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Speaker 1: unavailing resistance, I was convinced beforehand there was no fence
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Speaker 1: strong enough to stem the impetuous torrent. History of Marie
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Speaker 1: Antoinette by Moshois and note I was in the billiard
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Speaker 1: room with my companions. We placed ourselves upon some high benches.
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Speaker 1: I then saw Monsieur d'ar viller, with the drawn sword
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Speaker 1: in his hand, ordering the usher to open the door
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Speaker 1: to the French noblesse. Two hundred persons entered the room,
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Speaker 1: which was nearest to that in which the family were.
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Speaker 1: Others also drew up in two lines. In the preceding rooms.
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Speaker 1: I saw a few people belonging to the court, many
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Speaker 1: others whose features were unknown to me, and a few
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Speaker 1: who figured ridiculously enough among what was called the noblesse,
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Speaker 1: but whose self devotion ennobled them at once. They were
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Speaker 1: all so badly armed that even in that situation, the
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Speaker 1: French vivacity, which yields to nothing, indulged in jests upon
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Speaker 1: that which was no jesting matter. Monsieur de Saint Soupley,
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Speaker 1: one of the King's equerries, and a page instead of muskets,
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Speaker 1: carried upon their shoulders the tongs belonging to the King's antechamber,
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Speaker 1: which they had broken and divided between them. Another page,
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Speaker 1: who had a pocket pistol in his hand, stepped the
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Speaker 1: end of it against the back of the person who
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Speaker 1: stood before him, and who begged he would be good
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Speaker 1: enough to rest it elsewhere. A sword and a pair
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Speaker 1: of pistols were the only arms of those who had
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Speaker 1: the precaution to provide themselves with arms at all. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the numerous bands from the Faubours, armed with pikes and cutlasses,
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Speaker 1: filled the carousel and the streets adjacent to the Twideri.
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Speaker 1: The Sanguinary Masseoir were at their head with cannon pointed
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Speaker 1: against the castle. In this emergency, the King's Council sent
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Speaker 1: Monsieur de Jlis, the Minister of Justice, to the Assembly
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Speaker 1: to request they would send the king a day reputation,
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Speaker 1: which might serve as a safeguard to the executive power.
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Speaker 1: Its ruin was resolved on they passed to the order
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Speaker 1: of the day. At eight o'clock, the department repaired to
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Speaker 1: the castle. The attorney Saint Diq, seeing that the guard
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Speaker 1: within was ready to join the assailants, went into the
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Speaker 1: King's closet and requested to speak to him in private.
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Speaker 1: The King received him in his chamber. The Queen was
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Speaker 1: with him there Monsieur de Rere told him that the King,
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Speaker 1: all his family, and the people about them would inevitably
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Speaker 1: fall unless his Majesty immediately determined to go to the
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Speaker 1: National Assembly. The Queen at first opposed this advice, but
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Speaker 1: the attorney Saint Dique told her that she rendered herself
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Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths of the King, her children, and
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Speaker 1: all who were in the palace. Upon this she no
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Speaker 1: longer objected. The King then consented to go to the Assembly.
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Speaker 1: As he set out, he said to the minister and
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Speaker 1: persons who surrounded, come, gentlemen, there is nothing more to
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Speaker 1: be done here. The Queen said to me, as she
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Speaker 1: left the King's chamber, wait in my apartments. I will
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Speaker 1: come to you, or I will send for you to go.
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Speaker 1: I know not whither. She took with her only the
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Speaker 1: Princess de Lamvale and Madame de Tourzelle. The Princess de
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Speaker 1: Tarrante and Madame de la roche Ement were inconsolable at
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Speaker 1: being left at the tuileries. They and all who belonged
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Speaker 1: to the chamber went down into the Queen's apartments. End
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