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28 - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand · Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight of Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty.
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  Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by imbat de
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  Speaker 1: Saint Ommand, translated by Elizabeth G. Martin. Chapter twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: The morning of August tenth, the fatal day began. It
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  Speaker 1: was five o'clock in the morning. The Queen made her
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  Speaker 1: children rise, lest the swords of the insurgents should surprise
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  Speaker 1: them in their beds. The Dauphin, unaccustomed to being called
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  Speaker 1: so early, stared with surprise at the spectacle presented by
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  Speaker 1: the court and garden. Mamma said he, why should any
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  Speaker 1: one harm Papa? He is so good. Then, turning to
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  Speaker 1: a little girl, who was his usual companion in his games,
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  Speaker 1: he addressed her these words, which prove how well, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of his age, he knew the peril he was
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  Speaker 1: in here. Josephine, take this lock of my hair and
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  Speaker 1: promise to wear it as long as I am in danger.
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  Speaker 1: Led by their chief, Marchal de Maaiyi, an old man
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  Speaker 1: of eighty six. The two hundred noblemen who had assembled
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  Speaker 1: in the Gallery of Diana passed in review before the
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  Speaker 1: royal family, with those of the National Guards who were royalists.
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  Speaker 1: Sire exclaimed the old Marshal, bending his knee, Here are
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  Speaker 1: your faithful nobles, who have hastened to re establish your
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  Speaker 1: majesty on the throne of your ancestors. For this, once
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  Speaker 1: responded Louis the sixteenth, I consent that my friends should
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  Speaker 1: defend me. We will perish or save ourselves together. The
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  Speaker 1: last defenders of the throne shed tears of fidelity and tenderness.
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  Speaker 1: They kneeled before Marquis Antoinette and entreated the honor of
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  Speaker 1: kissing her hand. Never had the Queen appeared more gracious
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  Speaker 1: and majestic. The National Guards, enchanted, loaded their arms with transport.
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  Speaker 1: The Queen seized the Dauphin in her arms and held
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  Speaker 1: him above their heads like a living standard. The young
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  Speaker 1: men shouted, long live the King of our fathers, and
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  Speaker 1: the old men cried, long lived the King of our children.
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  Speaker 1: At the gates of the Tuileri, the tide was rising.
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  Speaker 1: Vanguards of the insurrection. The Marseilliers arrived unhindered. The municipality
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  Speaker 1: had succeeded in removing the cannons which were to have
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  Speaker 1: prevented approach by way of the Poniuf, and the port
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  Speaker 1: royal Mandal was no longer there to issue orders. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: impeded the march of the Forbourgs, and yet resistance might
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  Speaker 1: still have been possible. It is Babaru, the fierce revolutionist himself,
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  Speaker 1: who says so. All the faults committed by the insurrection,
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  Speaker 1: the wretched arrangement of the attacking party, the terror of some,
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  Speaker 1: and the ignorance of others, the forces at the palace
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  Speaker 1: all made the victory of the court certain. If the
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  Speaker 1: king had not left his post, if he had shown
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  Speaker 1: himself on horseback, a large majority of the people of
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  Speaker 1: Paris would have pronounced for him. Napoleon, who was an
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  Speaker 1: eye witness, had said the night before to Pozsau di
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  Speaker 1: Borgo that with two battalions of Swiss and some cavalry
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  Speaker 1: he would undertake to give the rioters a lesson they
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  Speaker 1: would remember. In the evening of August tenth, he wrote
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  Speaker 1: to his brother Joseph, according to what I saw of
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  Speaker 1: the temper of the crowd in the morning. If Louis
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth had mounted a horse, he would have gained
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  Speaker 1: the victory. Very few of the insurgents were seriously determined
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  Speaker 1: on a revolt. Most of them marched blindly, not knowing
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  Speaker 1: and not even asking whether they went. Westermann had been
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  Speaker 1: obliged to threaten Sainterre and even put his sword against
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  Speaker 1: his breast in order to induce him to march. A
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  Speaker 1: great number of the people of the Forbourgues, uneasy as
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  Speaker 1: to the result of the enterprise, said that, considering the
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  Speaker 1: preparations made by the Palace, it would be better to
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  Speaker 1: defer the matter to another day. The unarmed crowd followed
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  Speaker 1: through mere curiosity and were ready to take flight at
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  Speaker 1: the first discharge of musketry. According to Count de Vaublanc,
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  Speaker 1: the Swiss, if they had been commanded by a good
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  Speaker 1: officer from four o'clock in the morning, would have sufficed
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  Speaker 1: to disperse the multitude as they came up, and possibly
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  Speaker 1: might have won the day for the king without bloodshed. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: the best of princes render useless the courage of his defenders,
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  Speaker 1: and to spare the blood of his enemies. Accomplished the
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  Speaker 1: ruin of his friends. All his virtues turned against him
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  Speaker 1: and brought him to his ruin. Monschie de Vaublanc says
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  Speaker 1: again in his memoirs, at six in the morning, those
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  Speaker 1: who were in revolt had not yet assembled. How much
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  Speaker 1: time had been lost, how much was still to be lost.
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  Speaker 1: It was too evident that no military judgment had presided
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  Speaker 1: over the strange disposition of troops so placed within and
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  Speaker 1: without the palace as to be unable to give each
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  Speaker 1: other mutual support. A military man knows to well the
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  Speaker 1: value of the briefest moments. He knows too well how
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  Speaker 1: quickly victory can be decided by attacking the flank of
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  Speaker 1: a multitude with a small number of brave men. If
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  Speaker 1: the king had appointed one of the generals near him
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  Speaker 1: absolute master of operations, no doubt this general would have
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  Speaker 1: given the rebels no time to unite. Alas Louis the
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth had three times more courage than was necessary to conquer,
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  Speaker 1: but he knew not how to avail himself of it.
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  Speaker 1: Such was also the opinion of mister Tierre, who, in
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  Speaker 1: his Histeuard de la revolu chienfanseail says it must be
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  Speaker 1: repeated the unfortunate prince feared nothing for himself. He had,
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  Speaker 1: in fact refused to wear a warded vest, as he
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  Speaker 1: had done on July fourteenth, saying that on a day
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  Speaker 1: of combat he ought to be as much exposed as
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  Speaker 1: the least of his servants. Courage did not fail him
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  Speaker 1: then and afterwards. He displayed a bravery that was noble
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  Speaker 1: and elevated enough, but he lacked the boldness to take
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  Speaker 1: the offensive. It is certain, as has been frequently said,
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  Speaker 1: that if he had mounted a horse and charged at
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  Speaker 1: the head of his troops, the insurrection would have been
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  Speaker 1: put down. Towards six o'clock, the king went out on
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  Speaker 1: the balcony. He was saluted with acclamation. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: down the great staircase with the Queen to inspect the
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  Speaker 1: troops stationed in the courtyards. As one of his gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: of the chamber, Emmanuel Aubier has remarked he had never
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  Speaker 1: made war himself during his reign. There had never been
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  Speaker 1: a war on the continent. He was so unfortunate as
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  Speaker 1: to be wanting in grace, even awkward, and to look
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  Speaker 1: thoughtful rather than energetic, a thing displeasing to French soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of putting on a uniform and mounting a horse.
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  Speaker 1: He wore a purple coat of the shade used in
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  Speaker 1: mourning for kings on this fatal day when he was
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  Speaker 1: to wear moaning for the monarchy. Unspurred, unbooted, short as
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  Speaker 1: if for a drawing room, with white silk stockings, his
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  Speaker 1: hat under his arm, his hair out of curl, and
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  Speaker 1: badly powdered. There was nothing martial, nothing royal about him
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  Speaker 1: at this hour, when what was needed was the attitude
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  Speaker 1: and the fire of a king. Henry the fourth, he
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  Speaker 1: looked like an honest country gentleman talking with his farmers.
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  Speaker 1: The first condition of inspiring confidence is to possess it.
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  Speaker 1: Louis the sixteenth's aspect was much more that of a
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  Speaker 1: victim than a sovereign. The cries of long lived the King,
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  Speaker 1: which would have been enthusiastic for a prince ready to
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  Speaker 1: battle for his rights and reconquer his realm at the
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  Speaker 1: Soul's point, were few and sad. After having inspected the
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  Speaker 1: troops in the court, Louis the sixteenth decided to inspect
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  Speaker 1: those in the garden too. The queen. He turned to
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  Speaker 1: the palace, and he continued his rounds the gloyal National Guards,
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  Speaker 1: comprising the companies of the Pettit Pare and the Fille
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  Speaker 1: Saint Toamains, were drawn up on the terrace between the
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  Speaker 1: palace and the garden. They received the King sympathetically and
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  Speaker 1: advised him to continue his inspection as far as the
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  Speaker 1: Place Louis Caz. At this moment a battalion of the
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  Speaker 1: National Guards from the Saint Marchaux section defiled before him,
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  Speaker 1: uttering shouts of hatred and fury. Louis the sixteenth was
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  Speaker 1: undisturbed by this. He remained calm, and when this battalion
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  Speaker 1: had got into position, he tranquility reviewed it. Then he
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  Speaker 1: walked on again and crossed the entire garden. The battalion
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  Speaker 1: of the Croi Rouge, which was on the terrace beside
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  Speaker 1: the water, cried from a distance down with the veto
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  Speaker 1: down with the traitor. On the terrace of the Fignon
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  Speaker 1: at the other side, there was an equally violent crowd.
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  Speaker 1: The King, calm as ever, went on to the swing
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  Speaker 1: bridge by which the Tuillerie was entered from Place Louis cas.
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  Speaker 1: He was well enough received by the troops station there,
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  Speaker 1: but his return to the Alice could not but be difficult.
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  Speaker 1: The national guards of the Kahooge had broken rank and
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  Speaker 1: come down from the terrace beside the river to the garden,
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  Speaker 1: and pressed around the king with menacing shouts. The unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: monarch could only re enter the palace, where he had
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  Speaker 1: but a few moments mote to stay by calling to
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  Speaker 1: his aid a double row of faithful grenadiers. The ministers
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  Speaker 1: who were at the windows became alarmed. One of them,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Boucharges, cried, Great God, it is the king
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  Speaker 1: they are hooting. What the devil are they doing down there? Quick?
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  Speaker 1: We must go after him, And he hastened to descend
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  Speaker 1: into the garden with his colleague bego the Sacroix to
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  Speaker 1: meet his master. The queen, who beheld the side, shed tears.
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  Speaker 1: The two ministers brought back Louis the sixteenth. He came in,
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  Speaker 1: out of breath and fatigued by the heat and the
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  Speaker 1: exercise he had taken, but otherwise seeming very little moved.
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  Speaker 1: All is lost, said the Queen. This review has done
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  Speaker 1: more harm than good. From this moment, bad tidings succeeded
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  Speaker 1: each other without interruption. They were apprised at the foremais
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  Speaker 1: of the new commune Mondar's murder, the march of the
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  Speaker 1: Faubourgue and the arrival of the first detachment of rioters.
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  Speaker 1: The Marsellier debuched into the Carouselle and sent an envoy
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  Speaker 1: to demand that the gate of the royal court should
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  Speaker 1: be opened. As it remained closed, They knocked on it
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  Speaker 1: with repeated blows, while the National Guards said, we will
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  Speaker 1: not fire on our brothers. Would resistance have been possible
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  Speaker 1: even at this moment, that is to say, between seven
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  Speaker 1: and eight in the morning, Monsieur de Vaublanc thought, so,
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  Speaker 1: I do not know. He writes to what section the
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  Speaker 1: first band that arrived in the carousell belonged. It was
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  Speaker 1: in disorder and badly armed. If the king had marched
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  Speaker 1: toward his troop at the head of a battalion of
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  Speaker 1: the National Guard, if he had pronounced these words, I
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  Speaker 1: am your king, I order you to lay down your arms,
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  Speaker 1: the success would have been decided. The flight of a
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  Speaker 1: single battalion of rebels would have sufficed to frighten and
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  Speaker 1: disperse the others even before they were formed into line.
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  Speaker 1: It was at this time the Roderer, instead of counseling resistance,
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  Speaker 1: implored Louis the sixteen to seek helter in the Assembly
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  Speaker 1: for the royal family. Sire, he said, in an urgent tone,
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  Speaker 1: Your Majesty has not five minutes to lose. There is
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  Speaker 1: no safety for you except in the National Assembly. In
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  Speaker 1: the opinion of the Department, it is necessary to go
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  Speaker 1: there without delay. There are not men enough in the
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  Speaker 1: courtierds to defend the palace, nor are they perfectly well
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  Speaker 1: disposed on the mere recommendation to be on the defensive.
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  Speaker 1: The cannoneers have already unloaded their cannons, but said the King,
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  Speaker 1: I did not see many persons on the carousel, Sire,
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  Speaker 1: returned Rodora. There are a dozen pieces of artillery, and
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  Speaker 1: an immense crowd is arriving from the Faubourgs. The idea
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  Speaker 1: of a flight before the insurrection revolted the Queen's bride.
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  Speaker 1: What are you saying, sir, cried she. You are proposing
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  Speaker 1: that we should seek shelter with our most cruel persecutors. Never, never,
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  Speaker 1: I will be nailed to these walls before I consent
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  Speaker 1: to leave them. Sir, we have troops, Madame. All Paris
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  Speaker 1: is on the march. Resistance is impossible. Will you cause
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  Speaker 1: the massacre of the king, Your children and your servants,
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  Speaker 1: Louis the sixteenth. Still hesitating, Roderay vehemently insisted. Sire said
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  Speaker 1: he time presses. This is no longer an entreaty, nor
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  Speaker 1: even a council. We take the liberty of offering you.
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  Speaker 1: There is only one thing left for us to do now,
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  Speaker 1: and we ask your permission to take you away. The
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  Speaker 1: King looked fixedly at his interlocutor for several seconds, then,
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  Speaker 1: turning to the Queen, he said, let us go, and
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  Speaker 1: rose to his feet. Madame Elizabeth said, Monsieur Rodery, do
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  Speaker 1: you answer for the King's life? Yes, Madame, with my own,
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  Speaker 1: responded the communal attorney. Then, turning to the king, Sire
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  Speaker 1: said he I ask your majesty not to take any
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  Speaker 1: of your court with you, but to have no cortege
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  Speaker 1: but a department, and no escort except the National Guard. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: replied the King. There is nothing but that to say.
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  Speaker 1: The Minister of Justice exclaimed. The ministers will follow the king. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they have a place in the Assembly. And Madame under Toozelle,
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  Speaker 1: my children's governess, said the Queen. Yes, Madame, she will
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  Speaker 1: accompany you. Broderie then left the King's chamber, where this
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  Speaker 1: conversation had taken place, and said, in a loud voice
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  Speaker 1: to the persons crowding together in the council hall, the
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  Speaker 1: King and his family are going to the Assembly without
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  Speaker 1: other attendants than the department, the ministers and a guard. Then,
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  Speaker 1: he said, is the officer who commands the guard? Here?
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  Speaker 1: This officer, presenting himself. He said to him, you must
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  Speaker 1: bring forward a double file of national guards to accompany
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  Speaker 1: the king. The king desires it. The officer replied, it
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  Speaker 1: shall be done. Louis the sixteen came out of his
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  Speaker 1: chamber with his family. He waded several minutes in the
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  Speaker 1: hall until the guards should arrive, and going round the
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  Speaker 1: circle composed of some forty or fifty persons belonging to
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  Speaker 1: his court, Come, gentlemen, said he. There is nothing more
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  Speaker 1: to do here. The Queen, turning to Madame Campan, said,
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  Speaker 1: wait in my apartment. I will rejoin you, or else
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  Speaker 1: send word to go. I don't know where. Marie Antoinette took.
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  Speaker 1: No one w with her except the Princess de l'ambai
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  Speaker 1: and Madame de Tourzelles, the Princess de Torrent and Madame
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  Speaker 1: de la Roche aimand afflicted at the thought of being
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  Speaker 1: left to the Tuilerie went down with all the other
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  Speaker 1: ladies to the Queen's apartments on the ground floor. Laches Naie,
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  Speaker 1: who had succeeded to the command of the National Guard
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  Speaker 1: in consequence of Mandar's death, put himself with the head
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  Speaker 1: of the escort. This was formed of detachments from the
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  Speaker 1: most loyal battalions de Petite Paire, de Suis de Moulay
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  Speaker 1: and the Fille Saint Tomains, reinforced by about two hundred Swiss,
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  Speaker 1: commanded by the colonel of the regiment, Marquis de Maya
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  Speaker 1: d'Ors and the major Baron de Bachmin. The Cortege reached
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  Speaker 1: the great staircase by way of the Council Hall, the
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  Speaker 1: Royal bed chamber, the Earl de Boeuf, the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: the Guards, and the Hall of the hundred Swiss. As
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  Speaker 1: he was passing through the Earl de Boeuf, Louis the
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth took the hat of the National Guard on his
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  Speaker 1: right and placed it on his own, which was adorned
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  Speaker 1: with white feathers. The guard's surprise, removed the king's hat
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  Speaker 1: from his head and carried it under his arm. When
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  Speaker 1: Louis the sixteenth arrived at the foot of the stairs
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  Speaker 1: in the pavilion of Eologes. His thoughts recurred to the
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  Speaker 1: faithful adherents who had so uselessly devoted themselves to his defense,
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  Speaker 1: and whom he was leaving at the tuilerie without watchword
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  Speaker 1: or direction. What is going to become of all those
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  Speaker 1: who have stayed upstairs, said he? Sire, said Roderer, It
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  Speaker 1: seems to me that they were all in colored coats.
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  Speaker 1: Those who have swords need only lay them off, follow
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  Speaker 1: you and go out through the garden. That is true,
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  Speaker 1: returned Louis the sixteenth in the vestibule a little further on,
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  Speaker 1: as he was about to quit the fatal palace which
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  Speaker 1: fate had condemned him never to re enter, he had
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  Speaker 1: at last a moment of scruple and hesitation. He said again,
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  Speaker 1: But after all, there are not many people in the
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  Speaker 1: carouselle true, sire, replied Roderer. But the four bogs will
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  Speaker 1: soon arrive, and all the sections are armed and have
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  Speaker 1: assembled at the municipality. Besides, there are neither men enough here,
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  Speaker 1: nor are they determined enough to resist the actual gathering
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  Speaker 1: on the carousel, which has twelve pieces of artillery. The
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  Speaker 1: die is cast. Louis the sixteenth abandoned the tuilerie respect
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  Speaker 1: alone restrains the grief and indignation that moved the Swiss
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  Speaker 1: soldiers and the noblemen whose weapons and whose blood have
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  Speaker 1: been refused. They looked down from the windows at the
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  Speaker 1: Cortege or better, the funeral procession of royalty. It was
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  Speaker 1: about seven o'clock in the morning. The escort was drawn
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  Speaker 1: up in two lines. The members of the department formed
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  Speaker 1: a circle around the royal family. Roder walked first, Then
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  Speaker 1: came the King, with Bigod the sack Croix, Minister of
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs at his side. The Queen followed, giving her
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  Speaker 1: left arm to Monsieur de Bougearge, Minister of Marine, and
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  Speaker 1: her right hand to the Dauphin, who held Madame de
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  Speaker 1: Tourzelle with the other. Then Madame Royal and Madame Elizabeth VI,
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  Speaker 1: the Joris, Minister of Justice, and the Minister of War Dabancourt,
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  Speaker 1: leading the Princess de Lambay. The ministers of the Interior
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  Speaker 1: and of Taxes Champion the Villeneuve and Le Rue de
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  Speaker 1: la Ville closed the procession. The air was pure and
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  Speaker 1: the morning radiant. The sun lighted up the garden, the
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  Speaker 1: marble sculpture, and the sheets of water birds sang under
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and nature smiled on this day of mourning
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  Speaker 1: as if it were a festival. Looking at the populace,
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  Speaker 1: Madame Elisabeth said, all those people have gone astray. I
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  Speaker 1: should like them to be converted. I should not like
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  Speaker 1: them to be punished. Tears stood in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the little Madame Rial. The Princess de Lambay said mournfully,
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  Speaker 1: we shall never return to the tuilerie. The Prince de Pois,
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  Speaker 1: the Duke de choichurle counced'sson, vill the umin Niel, the
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  Speaker 1: ev Ye, the Poor la Bais, the Marquis de Briege,
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  Speaker 1: Chevalier de Fleurieres, Viscount de Saint Priest, the Marquis den Touillier,
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  Speaker 1: Messieurs de Friend and de Salaignac, the Queen's equerries, and Saintpardoux,
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  Speaker 1: the equerry of Madame Elisabeth, followed the sad procession. They
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  Speaker 1: passed through the grand alley unobstructed as far as the Paterre,
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  Speaker 1: then turned to the right toward the alley of the
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  Speaker 1: chestnut trees. There a halt of some minutes occurred in
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  Speaker 1: order to give time for warning the assembly. Louis the
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth looked down at a heap of dead leaves which
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  Speaker 1: had been swept up by the gardeners after a storm
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  Speaker 1: the night before. There are a good many leaves, said
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  Speaker 1: the king. They are falling early this year. It was
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  Speaker 1: only a few days before that Manuel had written in
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  Speaker 1: a journal that the king would not last until the
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  Speaker 1: falling of the leaves. Perhaps Louisa sixteenth remembered the prophecy
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  Speaker 1: of the revolutionists. The Dauphin, with a carelessness belonging to
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  Speaker 1: his age, amused himself by kicking about the dead leaves,
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  Speaker 1: the leaves that had fallen as his father's crown was falling.
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  Speaker 1: At this moment, before the royal family could enter the
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  Speaker 1: Assembly chamber, it was necessary that the step the king
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  Speaker 1: had taken should be announced to the deputies. The president
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  Speaker 1: of the Department undertook this commission. A deputation of twenty
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  Speaker 1: four members was at once as sent to meet Louis
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth. They found him in the large alley at
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  Speaker 1: the foot of the terrace of the Fregnan, a few
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  Speaker 1: steps from the staircase leading up to it, and which
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  Speaker 1: goes as far as the lobby through which one enters
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  Speaker 1: the hall occupied by the National Assembly, Sire, said the
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  Speaker 1: leader of the deputation. The Assembly, eager to contribute to
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  Speaker 1: your safety, offers to you and your family an asylum
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  Speaker 1: in its midst. During this time, the terrace in the
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  Speaker 1: staircase had become thronged by a furious crowd. A man
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  Speaker 1: carrying a long pole cried out in rage. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: they shall not enter the Assembly. They are the cause
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  Speaker 1: of all our troubles. This must be ended down with them. Roderer,
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  Speaker 1: standing on the fourth step of the staircase, cried, citizens,
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  Speaker 1: I demand silence in the name of the law. You
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  Speaker 1: seem disposed to prevent the King and his family from
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  Speaker 1: entering the National Assembly. You are not justified in opposing it.
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  Speaker 1: The King has a place there in virtue of the Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: and though his family has none Legally, they have just
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  Speaker 1: been authorized by a decree to go there. Here are
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  Speaker 1: the deputies sent to meet the King. They will attest
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  Speaker 1: the existence of this decree. The deputies confirmed his words. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the crowds still hesitated to leave the way clear. The
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  Speaker 1: man with the pole kept on brandishing it and crying
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  Speaker 1: down with them. Down with them, roderay going on to
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  Speaker 1: the terrace, snatched the pole and flung it into the garden.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd was so compact that in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the squabble some one stole the Queen's watch and her purse.
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  Speaker 1: A man with a sinister face approached the dauphin, took
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  Speaker 1: him from Marie Antoinette, and lifted him in his arms.
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  Speaker 1: The queen uttered a cry. Do not be frightened, said
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  Speaker 1: the man, I will do him no harm. Another person
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  Speaker 1: said to Louis the sixteenth sire, we are honest men,
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  Speaker 1: but we are not willing to be betrayed any longer.
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  Speaker 1: Be a good citizen, and don't forget to drive away
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  Speaker 1: your shavelings and your wife. Insults and threats resounded from
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  Speaker 1: all sides. Finally, after an actual struggle, the royal family
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in opening a passage. They made their way with
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  Speaker 1: difficulty through the narrow lobby choked with people, penetrated the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and entered the session chamber. It was there that royalty,
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  Speaker 1: humiliated and overcome, was to lie at the point of
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  Speaker 1: death under the eyes of its implacable enemies. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty eight read for You by Chigito Crasto Birmingham, Alabama,