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038 - Book 6 Chapter 4 In Queue · 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 six, Consolidation, Chapter four in Q. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Read by Peter Dan, Book six,
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  Speaker 1: chapter four in Q. If we look now at Paris,
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  Speaker 1: one thing is too evident that the baker's shops have
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  Speaker 1: got their queues or tales, their long strings of purchasers
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  Speaker 1: arranged in tail, so that the first comes to be
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  Speaker 1: first served were the shop once open. This waiting in tail,
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  Speaker 1: not seen since the early days of July, again makes
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  Speaker 1: its appearance in August. In time we shall see it
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  Speaker 1: perfected by practice to the rank almost of an art,
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  Speaker 1: and the art, or quasi art of standing in tail
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  Speaker 1: become one of the characteristics of the Parisian people, distinguishing
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  Speaker 1: them from all other peoples whatsoever. But consider, while work
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  Speaker 1: itself is so scarce, how a man must not only
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  Speaker 1: realize money, but stand waiting. If his wife is too
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  Speaker 1: weak to wait and struggle for half days in the
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  Speaker 1: tale till he gets it changed for dear bad bread.
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  Speaker 1: Controversies to the length sometimes of blood and battery must
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  Speaker 1: arise in these exasperated cues, Or if no controversy, then
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  Speaker 1: it is but one accordant pang linguer of complaint against
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  Speaker 1: the powers that be. France has begun her long curriculum
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  Speaker 1: of hungering, instructive and productive, beyond academic curriculums which extend
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  Speaker 1: over some seven most stressful years. As Jean Paul says
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  Speaker 1: of his own life, to a great height, shall the
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  Speaker 1: business of hungering go? Or consider in strange contrast the
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  Speaker 1: jubilee ceremonies, For in general the aspect of Paris presents
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  Speaker 1: these two features, jubilee ceremonials and scarcity of victal processions.
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  Speaker 1: Enough walk in jubilee of young women decked and dizzened
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  Speaker 1: their ribbons, all treckla, moving with song and table to
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  Speaker 1: the shrine of Saint Genevieve to thank her that the
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  Speaker 1: bastille is down. The strong men of the market and
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  Speaker 1: the strong women fail not with their bouquets and speeches.
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  Speaker 1: Abbe fourchets famed in such work, for Abbe la Favre
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  Speaker 1: could only distribute powder blessus trecola cloth for the national
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  Speaker 1: guard and makes it a national trecla flag victorious or
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  Speaker 1: to be victorious in the cause of civil and religious
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  Speaker 1: liberty all over the world Fouchet, we say, is the
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  Speaker 1: man for t d ms and public consecrations, to which,
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  Speaker 1: as in this instance of the flag, our National Guard
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  Speaker 1: will reply with volleys of musketry, church and cathedral, though
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  Speaker 1: it be filling Notre Dame with such noisiest folignous are
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  Speaker 1: men significant of several things on the whole, we will say,
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  Speaker 1: our new mayor, by ye, our new Commander Lafayette named
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  Speaker 1: or so Scipio AMERICANUS have bought them preferment. Deer Baye
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  Speaker 1: rides in kilt state coach with beef eaters and sumptuosity,
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  Speaker 1: Camelle de Moulin and others sniffing at him for it.
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  Speaker 1: Scipio bestrides the white charger and waves with civic plumes
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  Speaker 1: in sight of all France. Neither of them, however, does
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  Speaker 1: it for nothing but in truth, at an exorbitant rate.
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  Speaker 1: At this rate, namely of feeding Paris and keeping it
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  Speaker 1: from fighting out of the city fund. Some seventeen thousand
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  Speaker 1: of the utterly destitute are employed digging on monmartre ten
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  Speaker 1: pence a day, which buys them, at market price almost
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  Speaker 1: two pounds of bad bread. They look very yellow. When
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  Speaker 1: Lafayette goes to Harangue them. The town hall is in
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  Speaker 1: travail night and day. It must bring forth bread. A
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  Speaker 1: municipal constitution, regulation of all kinds, curbs on the sanscolotic
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  Speaker 1: press above all bread. Bread purveyors prowl the country far
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  Speaker 1: and wide with the appetite of lions, detect hidden grain,
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  Speaker 1: purchase open grain by gentle means or forcible, must and
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  Speaker 1: will find grain a most thankless task, and so difficult,
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  Speaker 1: so dangerous, even if a man did gain some trifle
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  Speaker 1: by it. On the nineteenth of August there is food
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  Speaker 1: for one day. Complaints there are that the food is
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  Speaker 1: spoiled and produces an effect on the intestines. Not corn
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  Speaker 1: but plaster of Paris, which effect on the intestines as
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  Speaker 1: well as that smarting in the throat and palate. A
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  Speaker 1: town hall proclamation warns you to disregard and even to
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  Speaker 1: consider as drastic beneficial. The mayor of Saint Denis, so
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  Speaker 1: black was his bread, has by a dyspeptic populace been
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  Speaker 1: hanged on the lantern. There. National guards protect the Paris
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  Speaker 1: corn market. First tens of ice, then six hundred busy?
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  Speaker 1: Are you bayi Brissa d' vauville Condorcet, and ye others,
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  Speaker 1: For as just hinted, there is a municipal constitution to
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  Speaker 1: be made too. The old Bastille electors, after some ten
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  Speaker 1: days of psalmadying over their glorious victory, begin to hear
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  Speaker 1: it asked in a splenetic tone, who put you there?
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  Speaker 1: They accordingly had to give place, not without moanings and
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  Speaker 1: audible growlings on both sides, to a new larger body
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  Speaker 1: specially elected for that post. Which new body augmented, altered,
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  Speaker 1: then finally fixed at the number of three hundred with
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  Speaker 1: the title of town Representatives. Represent Anne de Lacmune now
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  Speaker 1: sits there rightly portioned into committees, assiduous making a constitution
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  Speaker 1: at all moments when not seeking flower, and such a
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  Speaker 1: constitution little short of miraculous one that shall consolidate the revolution.
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  Speaker 1: The revolution is finished, then thereby E and all respectable
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  Speaker 1: friends of freedom would fain think so your revolution, like
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  Speaker 1: jelly sufficient boil'd need only to be poured into shapes
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  Speaker 1: of constitution and consolidated therein could it indeed contrive to cool?
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  Speaker 1: Which last, however, is precisely the doubtful thing, or even
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  Speaker 1: the not doubtful, unhappy friends of freedom. Consolidating a revolution.
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  Speaker 1: They must sit at work there, their pavilions spread on
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  Speaker 1: very chaos between two hostile worlds, the Upper Court world
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  Speaker 1: the nether San skolottic One, and beaten on by both,
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  Speaker 1: toiled painfully, perilously doing, in sad literal earnest the impossible
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  Speaker 1: into Book six, Chapter four,