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047 - Book 7 Chapter 8 The Equal Diet · 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 eight, The Equal Diet.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter Dan, Book seven, Chapter eight, The Equal Diet. But
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  Speaker 1: why Linger's munier returns not with his deputation. It is six,
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  Speaker 1: it is seven o'clock, and still no mouonia, no acceptance,
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  Speaker 1: pure and simple. And behold the dripping mean ads, not
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  Speaker 1: now in deputation, but in mass, have penetrated into the
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  Speaker 1: Assembly to the shamefullest interruption of public speaking and order
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Neither my Yard nor Vice President can
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  Speaker 1: restrain them except within wide limits. Not even except for
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  Speaker 1: minutes can the lion voice of mirror beau though they
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  Speaker 1: applaud it. But ever and anon they break in upon
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  Speaker 1: the regeneration of France with cries of bread, not so
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  Speaker 1: much discur du pain parton du longe de scors. So
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  Speaker 1: insensible were these poor creatures to bursts of parliamentary eloquence.
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  Speaker 1: One learns also that the royal carriages are getting yoked,
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  Speaker 1: as if for mets. Carriages royal or not have verily
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  Speaker 1: showed themselves at the back gates. They even produced or
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  Speaker 1: quoted a written order from our Versailles municipality, which is
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  Speaker 1: a monarchic not a democratic one. However, Versailles patrols drove
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  Speaker 1: them in again, as the vigilant Laquantra had strictly charged
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  Speaker 1: them to do. A busy man truly is major Laquantra
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  Speaker 1: in these hours. For Colonel d'staang Louiter is invisible in
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  Speaker 1: the oil de Boeuf, invisible or still more questionably visible
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  Speaker 1: for instance. Then also a too loyal municipality requires supervision.
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  Speaker 1: No order civil or military taken about any of these
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  Speaker 1: thousand things. Laquantras at the Versailles town hall. He is
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  Speaker 1: at the grate of the Grand Court, communing with Swiss
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  Speaker 1: and bodyguards. He is in the ranks of Flandre. He
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  Speaker 1: is here. He is there studious to prevent bloodshed, to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the royal family from flying to Metz, the mean
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  Speaker 1: ads from plundering Versailles. At the fall of night, we
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  Speaker 1: behold him advance to those armed groups of Saint Antoine
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  Speaker 1: hovering all to grim near the Sulda Menu. They receive
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  Speaker 1: him in a half circle, twelve speakers behind cannons, with
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  Speaker 1: lighted torches in hand. The cannon mouth towards Laquantra a
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  Speaker 1: picture for Salvatore. He asks, in temperate but courageous language,
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  Speaker 1: what they by this their journey to Versailles, do specially want?
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  Speaker 1: The twelve speakers reply in few words, inclusive of much bread.
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  Speaker 1: In the end of these brabbles, dupin a lafand's affair.
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  Speaker 1: When the affairs will end, no major laquantra, nor no
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  Speaker 1: mortal can say. But as to bread, he inquires, how
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  Speaker 1: many are you? Learns that they are six hundred, that
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  Speaker 1: a loaf each will suffice, and rides off to the
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  Speaker 1: municipality to get six hundred gloves. Which loaves, however, a
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  Speaker 1: municipality of monarchic temper will not give. It will give
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  Speaker 1: two tons of rice. Rather, could you but know whether
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  Speaker 1: it should be boiled or raw? Nay? When this too
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  Speaker 1: is accepted, the municipals have disappeared, ducked under, as the
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  Speaker 1: six and twenty long gowned of Paris did, and leaving
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  Speaker 1: not the smallest vestige of rice in the boiled all
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  Speaker 1: raw state, they there vanish from history. Rice comes. Not
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  Speaker 1: one's hope of food is balked, even one's hope of
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  Speaker 1: vengeance is not. Monsieur de Moucheton of the Scotch Company,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, deceitfully smuggled off, failing all which behold
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  Speaker 1: only Monsieur de Moucherton's slain war horse. Lying on the esplanade.
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  Speaker 1: There sant Antoine, balked Assyrian pounces on the slain war horse,
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  Speaker 1: flayes it, roasts it with such fuel of paling gates
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  Speaker 1: portable timber as can be come, not without shouting, And
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  Speaker 1: after the manner of ancient Greek heroes, they lifted their
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  Speaker 1: hands to the daintily readied repast, such as it might be.
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  Speaker 1: Are the rascality prowls, discoursive, seeking what it may devour.
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  Speaker 1: Flander will retire to its barracks. Lecuantre also with his
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  Speaker 1: versayes all but the vigilant patrols, charged to be doubly vigilant,
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  Speaker 1: so sink the shadows of night, blustering rainy, and all
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  Speaker 1: paths grow dark. Strangest night ever seen in these regions,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps since the bartholemyw night when Versailles, as Bessompierre writes
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  Speaker 1: of it, was a shattif chateau over the lyre of
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  Speaker 1: some orpheus to constrain with touch of melodious strings these
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  Speaker 1: mad masses into order, for here all seems fallen asunder
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  Speaker 1: in wide, yawning dislocation. The highest, as in down rushing
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  Speaker 1: of a world, is come in contact with the lowest,
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  Speaker 1: the rascale of France, beleaguering the Royalty of France. Iron
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  Speaker 1: shod batons lifted round the diadem, not to guard it.
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  Speaker 1: With denunciations of bloodthirsty anti national bodyguards are heard, dark
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  Speaker 1: growlings against a queenly name. The court sits tremulous powerless
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  Speaker 1: varies with the varying temper of the esplanade, with the
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  Speaker 1: varying color of the rumors from Paris, thick coming rumors
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  Speaker 1: now of peace, now of war Necker, and all the
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  Speaker 1: minister's consult with a blank issue. The ot of birth
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  Speaker 1: is one tempest of whispers. We will fly to Metz.
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  Speaker 1: We will not fly. The royal carriages again attempt egress,
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  Speaker 1: though for trial merely they are again driven in by
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  Speaker 1: Laquantra's patrols. In six hours. Nothing has been resolved on,
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  Speaker 1: not even the acceptance, pure and simple, in six hours.
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  Speaker 1: Alas he who, in such circumstances cannot resolve in six
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  Speaker 1: minutes may give up the enterprise him. Fate has already
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  Speaker 1: resolved for and Menadism. Meanwhile, and Sanscolottism takes counsel. With
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  Speaker 1: the National Assembly grows more and more tumultuous. There moon
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  Speaker 1: year returns. Not authority nowhere shows itself. The authority of
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  Speaker 1: France lies for the present with Laquantra and Asher Mayard. This, then,
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  Speaker 1: is the abomination of desolation comes suddenly, though long foreshadowed
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  Speaker 1: as inevitable for to the blind all things, a sudden misery,
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  Speaker 1: which through long ages had no spokesman, no helper, will
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  Speaker 1: now be its own helper and speak for itself. The dialect,
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  Speaker 1: one of the rudest, is what it could be? This
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  Speaker 1: At eight o'clock there returns to our assembly, not the deputation,
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  Speaker 1: but doctor Guilletine, announcing that it will return, also that
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  Speaker 1: there is hope of the acceptance, pure and simple. He
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  Speaker 1: himself has brought a royal letter authorizing in commanding the
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  Speaker 1: freest circulation of grains, which royal letter Menandism, with its
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  Speaker 1: whole heart applauds conformably, to which the Assembly forthwith passes,
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  Speaker 1: a decree also received with rapturous menatic plaudits. And he
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  Speaker 1: could not an august assembly contrive further to fix the
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  Speaker 1: price of bread at h sou the half quarter, butcher's
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  Speaker 1: meat at six sue the pound, which seem fair rates.
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  Speaker 1: Such motion do a multitude of men and women irrepressible
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  Speaker 1: by usher Mayard now make does an august assembly here
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  Speaker 1: made Asha Mayad himself is not always perfectly measured in speech,
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  Speaker 1: but if rebuked, he can justly excuse himself by the
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  Speaker 1: peculiarity of the circumstances. But finally, this decree well passed,
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  Speaker 1: and the disorder continuing, and members melting away, and no
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  Speaker 1: President Mounier returning. What can the vice president do but
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  Speaker 1: also melt away? The Assembly melts under such pressure into
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  Speaker 1: delict more as it is officially called adjourned. My yard
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  Speaker 1: is despatched to Paris with the decree concerning grains in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket. He and some women in carriages belonging to
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  Speaker 1: the King thither woods. Slim Louis en Chabrat has already
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  Speaker 1: set forth with that written answer which the twelve she
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  Speaker 1: deputies returned in to seek Slim self. She has set
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  Speaker 1: forth through the black muddy country. She has much to tell.
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  Speaker 1: Her poor nerve so flurried and travels as indeed to
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  Speaker 1: day on this road all persons do with extreme slowness.
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  Speaker 1: President Munia has not come, nor the acceptance pure and simple,
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  Speaker 1: though six hours with their events have come. Though Courier
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  Speaker 1: on Courier reports that Lafayette is coming, coming with war
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  Speaker 1: or with peace. It is time that the Chateau also
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  Speaker 1: should determine, on one thing or another, that the chateau
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  Speaker 1: also should show itself alive if it would continue living, victorious, joyful.
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  Speaker 1: After such delay, Moonia does arrive at last, and the
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  Speaker 1: hard earned acceptance with him, which now alas is of
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  Speaker 1: small value. Fancy Mouonia's surprise to find his senate, whom
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  Speaker 1: he hoped to charm by the acceptance pure and simple,
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  Speaker 1: all gone, and in its stead a senate of mean
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  Speaker 1: ads for as Erasmuss ape mimicked say, with wooden splint
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  Speaker 1: Erasmus shaving. So do these amazons hold in mock majesty,
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  Speaker 1: some confused parody of national Assembly. They make motions, deliver speeches,
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  Speaker 1: pass enactments, productive at least of loud laughter, all galleries
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  Speaker 1: and benches afilled. A strong dame of the market is
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  Speaker 1: in Mouonia's chair, not without difficulty. Moonier by aid of
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  Speaker 1: maces and persuasive speaking, makes his way to the female president.
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  Speaker 1: The strong Dame, before abdicating, signifies that for one thing,
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  Speaker 1: she and indeed her whole Senate may and female for
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  Speaker 1: what was one roasted war horse among so many are
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  Speaker 1: suffering very considerably from hunger experienced. Moon Air in these
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  Speaker 1: circumstances takes a twofold resolution to reconvoke his assembly members
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  Speaker 1: by sound of drum, also to procure a supply of food.
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  Speaker 1: Swift messengers fly to all bakers, cocks, pastry, cooks, vintners, restorers.
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  Speaker 1: Drums beat accompanied with shrill vocal proclamation. Through all streets
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  Speaker 1: they come, The assembly members come, what is still better?
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  Speaker 1: The provisions come on tray and barrow. Come these latter
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  Speaker 1: loaves wine, great store of sausages. The nourishing baskets circulate
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  Speaker 1: harmoniously along the benches. Nor, according to the father of epics,
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  Speaker 1: did any soul lack a fair share of vital data?
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  Speaker 1: Cices an equal diet highly desirable at the moment. Gradually,
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  Speaker 1: some hundred or so of assembly members get edge in menadism,
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  Speaker 1: making way a little round Moonier's chair. Listen to the acceptance,
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  Speaker 1: pure and simple, and begin, what is the order of
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  Speaker 1: the night discussion of the penal code. All benches are
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  Speaker 1: crowded in the dusky galleries. Duskier with unwashed heads is
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  Speaker 1: a strange coruscation of impromptu bill hooks. It is exactly
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  Speaker 1: five months this day since these same galleries were filled
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  Speaker 1: with high plumed, jeweled beauty raining bright influences. And now
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  Speaker 1: to such length have we got in regenerating France. Methinks
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  Speaker 1: the travile throes are of the sharpest. Menodism will not
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  Speaker 1: be restrained from occasional remarks, asks what is the use
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  Speaker 1: of the penal code? The thing we want is bread.
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  Speaker 1: Mirabeau turns round when the lion voiced rebuke. Menodism applauds him,
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  Speaker 1: but recommences. Thus they chewing tough sausages. Discussing the penal
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  Speaker 1: code make night hideous? What the issue will be? Lafayette,
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  Speaker 1: with his thirty thousand, must derive first him who cannot
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  Speaker 1: now be distant All men expect as the messenger of destiny.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book seven, Chapter eight