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021 - Book 3 Chapter 9 Burial with Bonfire · The French Revolution Volume 1 - The Bastille

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  Speaker 1: The French Revolution, A history by Thomas Carlyle, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: Book three, The Parliament of Paris, Chapter nine, Burial with Bonfire.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter Dan Book three, Chapter nine, Burial with Bonfire. Besson Valles.
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  Speaker 1: During these extraordinary operations of payments to fifth in paper
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  Speaker 1: and change of Prime Minister had been out on a
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  Speaker 1: tour through his district of command, and indeed for the
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  Speaker 1: last months peacefully drinking the waters of Contrexe viyear, returning
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  Speaker 1: now in the end of August towards Molain and knowing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He arrives one evening at Langre finds the whole town
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  Speaker 1: in a state of uproar Grand Ruemur doubtless some sedition,
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  Speaker 1: a thing too common in these days. He alights, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: inquires of a man tolerably dressed, what the matter is?
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  Speaker 1: How answers the man? Have you not heard the news?
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  Speaker 1: The archbishop is thrown out, and Monsieur Necker is recalled,
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  Speaker 1: and all is going to go well. Such rumer and
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  Speaker 1: vociferous acclaim has risen round Monsieur Necker ever from that day,
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  Speaker 1: when he issued from the Queen's apartments a nominated minister.
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  Speaker 1: It was on the twenty fourth of August, the galleries
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  Speaker 1: of the chateau, the courts, the streets of Versailles. In
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  Speaker 1: few hours the capital, and as the news flew, all
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  Speaker 1: France resounded with the cry of vive l'a viva monsieur
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  Speaker 1: neca in Paris. Indeed, it unfortunately got the length of turbulence.
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  Speaker 1: Petard's rockets go off in the place Dauphine more than
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  Speaker 1: enough a week of figure mannequindosia in Archbishop's stole, made
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  Speaker 1: emblematically three fifths of its saturn, two fifths of its
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  Speaker 1: paper is promenaded, not in silence to the popular judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Bar Is doomed, shriven by a mock abbe de Vaumont,
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  Speaker 1: then solemnly consumed by fire at the foot of Henri's
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  Speaker 1: statue on the Ponte Nerve, with such petarding and huzzaing
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  Speaker 1: that Chevalier du Wine and his city watch seek good
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  Speaker 1: finally to make a charge more or less ineffectual. And
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  Speaker 1: there wanted not burning of sentry boxes, forcing of guard houses,
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  Speaker 1: and also dead bodies thrown into the Seine over night
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  Speaker 1: to avoid new effervescence. Parliaments therefore shall return from exile.
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  Speaker 1: Plenary court payment to fifths in paper have vanished, gone
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  Speaker 1: off in smoke at the foot of Henri's statue. States
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  Speaker 1: General with a political millennium are now certain. Nay, it
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  Speaker 1: shall be announced in our fond haste for January next,
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  Speaker 1: and all as the longer man said, is going to
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  Speaker 1: go to the prophetic glance of Bessonval. One other thing
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  Speaker 1: is too apparent that friend la Magnon cannot keep his keepership.
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  Speaker 1: Neither he nor war Minister Comte de Brienne. Already old
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  Speaker 1: foos Oulong, with an eye to be warmness to himself,
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  Speaker 1: is making underground movements. This is that same Foulon named
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  Speaker 1: Armes d'amnaydu Parliament, a man grown gray in treachery, in griping, projecting,
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  Speaker 1: intriguing and iniquity, who, once, when it was objected to
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  Speaker 1: some finance scheme of his what will the people do?
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  Speaker 1: Made answer in the fire of discussion. The people may
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  Speaker 1: eat grass hasty words which fly abroad irrevocable, and will
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  Speaker 1: send back tidings. Foulon, to the relief of the world,
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  Speaker 1: fails on this occasion and will always fail. Nevertheless, it
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  Speaker 1: steads not Monsieur de la magnon. Its stead's not the
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  Speaker 1: doomed man that he have interviews with the king and
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  Speaker 1: be seen to return a radieu emitting rays. L'amagnon is
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  Speaker 1: the hatred of parliaments. Comte de Brienne is brother of
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  Speaker 1: the cardinal Archbishop. The twenty fourth of August has been,
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  Speaker 1: and the fourteenth of September is not yet. When they, too,
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  Speaker 1: as their great Principle had done, descend, made to fall
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  Speaker 1: soft like him. And now, as if the last burden
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  Speaker 1: had been rolled from its heart and assurance were at
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  Speaker 1: length perfect, Paris burst forth anew into extreme du belee.
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  Speaker 1: The Basoche rejoices, allowed that the foe of parliaments is fallen. Nobility, gentry,
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  Speaker 1: commonality have rejoiced and rejoice. Nay, now with new emphasis,
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  Speaker 1: Rascality itself, starting suddenly from its dim depths, will arise
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  Speaker 1: and do it for down. Even thither the new political
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  Speaker 1: evangel in some rude version or other, has penetrated. It
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  Speaker 1: is Monday, the fourteenth of September seventeen eighty eight. Rascality
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  Speaker 1: assembles anew in great force. In the plus Dauphine lets
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  Speaker 1: off Petad's fires blunderbusses to an incredible extent, without interval
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  Speaker 1: for eighteen hours. There is again a wicker figure mannikin
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  Speaker 1: of Osire, the center of endless howlings. Also, Necker's portrait,
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  Speaker 1: snatched or purchased from some print shop, is borne processionally
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  Speaker 1: aloft on a perch with huzzars, an example to be remembered.
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  Speaker 1: But chiefly on the pont Neuf, where the great Enrie
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  Speaker 1: in bronze rides sublime. There do crowd together or passengers
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  Speaker 1: must stop till they have bowed to the people's king
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  Speaker 1: and said audibly vivan ricatra or di'ab la la magnon
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  Speaker 1: no carriage, but must stop, not even that of his
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  Speaker 1: highness dor leons your coach doors are opened, Monsieur will
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  Speaker 1: please to put forth his head and bow. Or even
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  Speaker 1: if a factory to a light altogether, a kneel from Madame,
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  Speaker 1: a wave of her plumes, a smile of her fair
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  Speaker 1: face there when she sits, shall suffice, And surely a
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  Speaker 1: coin or two to buy fusets were not unreasonable from
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  Speaker 1: the upper class's friends of liberty. In this manner it
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  Speaker 1: proceeds for days in such rude horse play, not without kicks.
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  Speaker 1: The city Watch can do nothing hardly save its own skin.
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  Speaker 1: For the last twelvemonth, as we have sometimes seen, it
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  Speaker 1: has been a kind of pastime to hunt the watch.
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  Speaker 1: Bessan Val indeed is at hand with soldiers, but they
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  Speaker 1: have orders to avoid firing and are not prompt to stir.
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  Speaker 1: On Monday morning the explosion of petards began. And now
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  Speaker 1: it is near midnight of Wednesday, and the wick Mannikin
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  Speaker 1: is to be buried, apparently in the antique fashion. Long
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  Speaker 1: rows of tortures following it moved towards the Hotel l'a Magnon,
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  Speaker 1: but a servant of mine bessan Vals, has run to
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  Speaker 1: give warning, and there are soldiers come Gloomy. La Magnon
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  Speaker 1: is not to die by conflagration or this night, nor
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  Speaker 1: yet for a year and then by gun shot suicidal
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  Speaker 1: or accidental is unknown. Foiled rascality burnt its Mannikin Novosiere
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  Speaker 1: under his windows, tears up the sentry box and rolls
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  Speaker 1: off to try Brienne, to try Dubai, Captain of the Watch. Now, however,
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  Speaker 1: all is bestirring itself. Guard Francaillesse invalid horse patrol. The
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  Speaker 1: torch procession is met with sharp shot, with the thrusting
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  Speaker 1: of bayonets, the slashing of sabers. Even Jubais makes a
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  Speaker 1: charge with that cavalry of his, and the cruelest charge
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  Speaker 1: of all. There are a great many killed and wounded,
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  Speaker 1: not without clangor complaint, subsequent criminal trials, and official persons
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  Speaker 1: dying of heartbreak. So, however, with steel Besom rascality is
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  Speaker 1: brushed back into its dim depths, and the streets are
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  Speaker 1: swept clear. Not for a century and a half had
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  Speaker 1: rascality ventured to step forth in this fashion. Not for
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  Speaker 1: so long showed its huge, rude lineaments in the light
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  Speaker 1: of day, a wonder and a new thing. As yet
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  Speaker 1: gamboling merely in awkward Brobdignag's sport, not without quaintness, hardly
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  Speaker 1: in anger, yet in its huge, half vacant laugh, lurks
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  Speaker 1: a shade of grimness which could unfold itself. However, the
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  Speaker 1: thinkers invited by Lomonie are now far on with their pamphlets.
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  Speaker 1: States General on one plan or another will infallibly meet,
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  Speaker 1: if not in January, as was once hoped, yet at
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  Speaker 1: latest in May. Old Duke de Richelieu, moribund, in these
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  Speaker 1: autumn days opens his eyes once more, murmuring what would
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  Speaker 1: Louis fourteenth, whom he remembers, have said, then closes them
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  Speaker 1: again for ever before the evil time. End of Book three,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine,