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040 - Book 7 Chapter 1 Patrollotism · The French Revolution Volume 1 - The Bastille

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  Speaker 1: The French Revolution, A history by Thomas Carlyle, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: Book seven, The Insurrection of Women, Chapter one, Patrolotism. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Peter Dan,
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  Speaker 1: Book seven, Chapter one, Patrolotism. No friends, this revolution is
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  Speaker 1: not of the consolidating kind. Do not fires, fevers, sown seeds,
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  Speaker 1: chemical mixtures, men, events. All embodiments are force that work
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  Speaker 1: in this miraculous complex of forces named Universe, go on
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  Speaker 1: growing through their natural phases and developments. Each, according to
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  Speaker 1: its kind, reach their height, reach their visible, decline, finally
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  Speaker 1: sink under vanishing, and what we call die. They all grow.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing but what grows and shoots forth into
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  Speaker 1: its special expansion once give it leave to spread. Observed
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  Speaker 1: too that each grows with a rapidity proportioned in general
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  Speaker 1: to the madness and unhealthiness. There is in it slow
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  Speaker 1: regular growth, though this also ends in death. Is what
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  Speaker 1: we name health and sanity. A sans collotism, which has
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  Speaker 1: prostrated Bastilles, which has got pike and musket, and now
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  Speaker 1: goes burning chateaus, passing resolutions and haranguing under roof and sky,
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  Speaker 1: may be said to have sprung and by law of
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  Speaker 1: nature must grow. To judge by the madness and diseasedness,
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  Speaker 1: both of itself and of the soil and element it
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  Speaker 1: is in. One might expect the rapidity and monstrosity would
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  Speaker 1: be extreme. Many things, too, especially all diseased things, grow
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  Speaker 1: by shoots and fits. The first grand fit and shooting
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  Speaker 1: forth of sans Collotism with that of Paris conquering its king,
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  Speaker 1: for Bay's figure of rhetoric was all too sad a reality.
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  Speaker 1: The king is conquered, going at large on his parole,
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  Speaker 1: on condition, say, of absolutely good behavior, which in these
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  Speaker 1: circumstances will unhappily mean no behavior whatever, a quite untenable
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  Speaker 1: position that of majesty put on its good behavior. Alas
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  Speaker 1: is it not natural that whatever lives try to keep
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  Speaker 1: itself living, whereupon his Majesty's behavior will soon become exceptionable.
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  Speaker 1: And so the second grand fit of sans Collotism, that
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  Speaker 1: of putting him in durance, cannot be destined. Necker in
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  Speaker 1: the National Assembly is making moan as usual about his deficit.
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  Speaker 1: Barriers and custom houses burnt, the tax gatherers hunted, not hunting.
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  Speaker 1: His Majesty's exchequerre all but empty. The remedy is a
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  Speaker 1: loan of thirty millions, then, on still more enticing terms,
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  Speaker 1: a loan of eighty millions, neither of which loans unhappily
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  Speaker 1: will the stock job as venture to lend. The stock
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  Speaker 1: jobber has no country except his own blackpool of Adgio.
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  Speaker 1: And yet in those days, for men that have a country,
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  Speaker 1: what a glow of patriotism burns in many a heart,
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  Speaker 1: penetrating inwards to the very purse. So early as the
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  Speaker 1: seventh of August, a don patriotique, a patriotic gift of
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  Speaker 1: jewels to a considerable extent, has been solemnly made by
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  Speaker 1: certain Parisian women, and solemnly accepted with honorable mention, whom
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  Speaker 1: forthwith all the world takes to imitating and emulating patriotic gifts, or,
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  Speaker 1: as with some heroic eloquence which the President must answer
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  Speaker 1: and the Assembly listen to, flow in from far and near,
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  Speaker 1: in such numbers that the honorable mention can only be
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  Speaker 1: performed in lists published at stated epochs. Each gives what
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  Speaker 1: he can. The very cord wainers have behaved munificently. One
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  Speaker 1: landed proprietor gives a forest, fashionable society gives its shoe
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  Speaker 1: buckles takes cheerfully to shoe ties. Unfortunate females give what
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  Speaker 1: they have amassed in loving the smell of all cash,
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  Speaker 1: as Vespasian thought, is good, beautiful, and yet inadequate. The
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  Speaker 1: clergy must be invited to melt their superfluous church plate
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  Speaker 1: in the royal mint. Nay, finally, a patriotic contribution of
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  Speaker 1: the forcible sort must be determined on, though unwillingly let
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  Speaker 1: the fourth part of your declared yearly revenue for this
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  Speaker 1: once only be paid down. So shall a National Assembly
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  Speaker 1: make the Constitution undistracted, at least by insolvency. Their own
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  Speaker 1: wages a settled on the seventeenth of August, are but
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  Speaker 1: eighteen francs a day each man. But the public service
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  Speaker 1: must have sinews must have money to appease the deficit,
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  Speaker 1: not to combly or choke the deficit. If you or
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  Speaker 1: mortal could for withal, as Mirabeau was heard saying, it
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  Speaker 1: is the deficit that saves us. Towards the end of August,
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  Speaker 1: our National Assembly, in its constitutional labors, has got so
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  Speaker 1: far as the question of vv Shall Majesty have a
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  Speaker 1: vito on the National Enactments or not have a Vito.
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  Speaker 1: What speeches were spoken with indoors and without clear and
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  Speaker 1: also passionate logic. Imprecations comminations gone happily, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: to limbo through the cracked brain and uncracked lungs of
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  Speaker 1: Saint u Rouge. The Palais Royale rebellows with Vito. Journalism
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  Speaker 1: is busy. France rings with Vito. I shall never forget,
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  Speaker 1: says Dumont. My going to Paris one of these days
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  Speaker 1: with Mirabeau and the crowd of people we found waiting
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  Speaker 1: for his carriage about lege the bookseller's shop. They flung
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  Speaker 1: themselves before him, conjuring him with tears in their eyes
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  Speaker 1: not to suffer the Vito absolu. They were in a frenzy.
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur le comte, you are the people's father. You must
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  Speaker 1: save us. You must offend us against those villains who
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  Speaker 1: are bringing back despotism. If the king gets this, Vito,
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  Speaker 1: what is the use of national assembly? We are slaves.
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  Speaker 1: All is done. Friends of the sky fall there will
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  Speaker 1: be catching of larks, Mirabeau adds Dumre was eminent on
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  Speaker 1: such occasions. He answered vaguely, with a patrician imperturbability and
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  Speaker 1: bound himself to nothing. Deputations go to the Hotel de Ville.
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  Speaker 1: Anonymous letters to aristocrats in the National Assembly threatening that
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  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand, or sometimes at sixty thousand will march to
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  Speaker 1: illuminate you. The Paris districts are astir petitions signing Saint
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  Speaker 1: Durouz sets forth from the Palais Royale with an escort
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  Speaker 1: of fifteen hundred individuals to petition in person. Resolute, or
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  Speaker 1: seemingly so is the tall, shaggy Marquis in the Cafe
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  Speaker 1: de Foi. But resolute also is Commandant General Lafayette. The
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  Speaker 1: streets are all beset by patrols. Saint de Rouge stopped
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  Speaker 1: at the Barriere de bon Nomme. He may bellow like
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  Speaker 1: the bulls of Bashan, but absolutely must return. The brethren
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  Speaker 1: of the Palais Royal circulate all night and make motions
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  Speaker 1: under the open canopy or coffee houses being shut. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: Lafayette and the town hall do prevail. Saint Rouge is
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  Speaker 1: thrown into prison. Vito Absolu adjusts itself into suspensive veto prohibition,
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  Speaker 1: not for ever, but for a term of time, and
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  Speaker 1: this doom's clamor will grow silent as the others have
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  Speaker 1: done so far. Has consolidation prospered, though with difficulty repressing
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  Speaker 1: the nether san sclotic world, and the Constitution shall be
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  Speaker 1: made with difficulty amid jubilee and scarcity patriotic gifts Baker's cues,
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  Speaker 1: Abbe Fourchet's harangues with their armen of platoon musketry. Scipio
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  Speaker 1: Americanus has deserved thanks from the National Assembly and France.
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  Speaker 1: They offer him stipends and emoluments to a handsome extent,
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  Speaker 1: or which stipends and emoluments he covetous of other blessedness
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  Speaker 1: than mere money, does in his chivalrous way, without scruple
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  Speaker 1: refuse to the Parisian common man. Meanwhile, one thing remains inconceivable,
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  Speaker 1: that now, when the bastille is down and French liberty restored,
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  Speaker 1: grain should continue. So dear, our rights of man are
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  Speaker 1: voted feudalism and all tyranny abolished. Yet behold we stand
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  Speaker 1: in queue. Is it aristocrat for stallers, a court still
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  Speaker 1: bent on intrigues. Something is rotten somewhere, and yet alas
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Lafayette, with his patrols, prohibits everything, even
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  Speaker 1: complaint Saint Rouge and other heroes of the veto lie endurance.
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  Speaker 1: People's friend Morah was seized. Printers of patriotic journals are
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  Speaker 1: fettered and forbidden. The very hawkers cannot cry till they
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  Speaker 1: get license and leaden badgers. Blue National Guards ruthlessly dissipate
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  Speaker 1: all groups scour with leveled bayonets. The Palais Royal itself
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  Speaker 1: pass on your affairs along the Rue Tarin. The patrol,
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  Speaker 1: presenting his bayonet, cries to the left, turn into the
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  Speaker 1: Rue Saint Benoi, he cries to the right. A judicious
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  Speaker 1: patriot like Camille des Moulin in this instant, is driven
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  Speaker 1: for quietness sake, to take the gutter. Oh much suffering people,
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  Speaker 1: Our glorious revolution is evaporating in trickula, ceremonies and complimentary harangues,
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  Speaker 1: of which latter, as Lustelotte acridly calculates upwards of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand have been delivered within the last month of the
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  Speaker 1: town hall alone, and our mouths unfilled with bread to
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  Speaker 1: be shut under penalties. The caricaturist promulgates his emblematic tablature
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  Speaker 1: La Patrullatism chassan le patriotisma, patriotism driven out by patrol
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  Speaker 1: latism ruthless patrols, long superfine harangues, and scanty, ill baked
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  Speaker 1: loaves more like baked bath bricks, which produce an effect
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  Speaker 1: on the intestines. Where will this end? In consolidation? End
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  Speaker 1: of Book seven, Chapter one,