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033 - Book 5 Chapter 8 Conquering your King · 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 five, The Third Estate, Chapter eight, Conquering Your King.
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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 five, Chapter eight, Conquering Your King. On
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  Speaker 1: the Morrow, a fourth deputation to the Chateau is on
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  Speaker 1: foot of a more solemn, not to say awful character,
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  Speaker 1: For besides Orgy's on the Arrangerie, it seems the grain
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  Speaker 1: convoys are all stopped, nor has Mirabeau's thunder been silent.
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  Speaker 1: Such deputation is on the point of setting out, when
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  Speaker 1: Lo his Majesty himself, attended only by his two brothers,
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  Speaker 1: step in, quite in the paternal manner, announces that the
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  Speaker 1: troops and all causes of offense are gone, and henceforth
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  Speaker 1: there should be nothing but trust, reconcilement, good will. Whereof
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  Speaker 1: he permits and even requests a national assembly to assure
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  Speaker 1: Paris in his name. Acclamation as of men suddenly delivered
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  Speaker 1: from death, gives answer. The whole assembly spontaneously rises to
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  Speaker 1: escort his Majesty back, interlacing their arms to keep off
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  Speaker 1: the excessive pressure from him. For all Versailles is crowding
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  Speaker 1: and shouting. The chateau. Musicians with a felicitous promptitude, strike
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  Speaker 1: up the San de Safamilla bosom of one's family. The
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  Speaker 1: Queen appears at the balcony with her little boy and girl,
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  Speaker 1: kissing them several times. Infinite vivats spread far and wide,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly there has come, as it were, a new
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  Speaker 1: heaven on earth. Eighty eight August senators, bay Lafayette and
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  Speaker 1: our repentant archbishop among them, take coach for Paris with
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  Speaker 1: the great intelligence benedictions without end on their heads. From
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  Speaker 1: the place Lewis Cans where they alight all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the Hotel de Ville. It is one sea of
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  Speaker 1: tricola cockades of clear national muskets, one ten tempest of
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  Speaker 1: Haussaig's hand clappings, aided by occasional rollings of drum music.
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  Speaker 1: Harangues of due fervor are delivered, especially by Lally Tollendal,
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  Speaker 1: pious son of the ill fated murdered Lalis, on whose head,
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  Speaker 1: in consequence a civic crown of oak or parsley is forced,
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  Speaker 1: which he forcibly transfers to Bayes. But surely, for one thing,
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  Speaker 1: the National Guard must have a general Moreau de Saint Marie,
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  Speaker 1: he of the three thousand Orders, casts one of his
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  Speaker 1: significant glances on the bust of Lafayette, which has stood
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  Speaker 1: there ever since the American War of Liberty, whereupon, by
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  Speaker 1: acclamation Lafayette is nominated again in room of the slain
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  Speaker 1: traitor or quasi traitor Flazelle, President Baiyi shall be provost
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  Speaker 1: of the merchants, no Mayor of Paris, so be it
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  Speaker 1: Mayor de Paris, mayor bay Ye General Lafayette viv bay
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  Speaker 1: Ye viva Lafayette. The universal out of doors multitude rends
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  Speaker 1: the welcome in confirmation and now finally led us to
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame for a tedium towards Notre Dame Cathedral. In
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  Speaker 1: glad procession, these regenerators of the country walk through a
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  Speaker 1: jubilant people in fraternal manner. Abbe Lefevre, still black with
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  Speaker 1: his gunpowder services, walking arm in arm with the white
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  Speaker 1: stoled Archbishop poor Bayi comes upon the foundling children sent
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  Speaker 1: to kneel to him, and weeps t deum. Our archbishop
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  Speaker 1: officiating is not only sung but shot with blank cartridges.
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  Speaker 1: Our joy is boundless, as our woe threatened to be
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  Speaker 1: Paris by her own pike and musket, and the valor
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  Speaker 1: of her own heart has conquered the very war gods,
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  Speaker 1: to the satisfaction now of Majesty itself. A courier is
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  Speaker 1: this night getting under way for Necker, the People's Minister,
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  Speaker 1: invited back by the King by national Assembly and nation
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  Speaker 1: shall traverse France amid shoutings and the sound of trumpet
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  Speaker 1: and timbrel, seeing which course of things, Messseigneurs of the court, triumvirent,
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  Speaker 1: messieurs of the dead born, Broulliers Ministry, and others such
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  Speaker 1: consider that their part also is clear to mount and
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  Speaker 1: ride off, ye too, loyal brollieris Polygnacs and princes of
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  Speaker 1: the blood off while it is yet time, did not
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  Speaker 1: the Palais Royal, in its late nocturnal violent motions, set
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  Speaker 1: a specific price place of payment not mentioned on each
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  Speaker 1: of your heads, with precautions, with the aid of pieces
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  Speaker 1: of cannon and regiments that can be depended on miss
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  Speaker 1: signeurs between the sixteenth night and the seventeenth morning, get
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  Speaker 1: to their several roads, not without risk. Prince Conde haz
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  Speaker 1: Or seems to have men galloping at full speed with
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  Speaker 1: a view at is thought to fling him into the
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  Speaker 1: river wires at poor Saint ma Ants. The Polignac's travel
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  Speaker 1: disguised friends not servants on their coach box. Bolier has
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  Speaker 1: his own difficulties at Versailles, runs his own risks at
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  Speaker 1: Metz and Verdun, does, nevertheless, get safe to Luxembourg, and
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  Speaker 1: there rests. This is what they call the first emigration.
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  Speaker 1: Determined On as appears in full court conclave, his majesty
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  Speaker 1: assisting prompt he for his share of it to follow
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  Speaker 1: any council whatsoever. Three sons of France and four princes
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  Speaker 1: of the blood of Saint Louis, says Weber could not
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  Speaker 1: more effectually humble the burghers of Paris than by appearing
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  Speaker 1: to withdraw in fear of their life, alas the burghers
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  Speaker 1: of Paris bear it with unexpected stoicism. The man d'Artois
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  Speaker 1: indeed is gone, but has he carried, for example, the
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  Speaker 1: land d'Artois with him, not even Bagatel, the country house,
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  Speaker 1: which shall be useful as a tavern, hardly the four
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  Speaker 1: valet breeches, leaving the breeches maker. As for old Foulon,
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  Speaker 1: one learns that he is dead. At least a sumptuous
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  Speaker 1: funeral is going on the undertaker's honoring him if no
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  Speaker 1: other will, and tendon Bertier, his son in law, is
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  Speaker 1: still living lurking. He joined bassanval on that umenities Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: appearing to treat it with levity, and has now fled.
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  Speaker 1: No man knows whither. The emigration is not gone many miles.
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  Speaker 1: Prince Conde hardly across the was when his Majesty, according
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  Speaker 1: to arrangement for the emigration, also thought it might do good,
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  Speaker 1: undertakes a rather daring enterprise, that of visiting Paris in
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  Speaker 1: person with a hundred members of Assembly, with small or
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  Speaker 1: no military escort, which indeed he dismissed at the bridge
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  Speaker 1: of Savre. Poor Louis sets out, leaving a desolate palace,
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  Speaker 1: a queen weeping the present, the past, and the future,
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  Speaker 1: all so unfriendly for her. At the barrier of Passi
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  Speaker 1: mereby ye in grand Galie presents him with the keys,
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  Speaker 1: harangues him in academic style, mentions that it is a
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  Speaker 1: great day that, in Henri Cartra's case the king had
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  Speaker 1: to make conquest of his people, but in this happier case,
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  Speaker 1: the people makes conquest of its king, a conqui sauri.
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  Speaker 1: The king so happily conquered, drives forward slowly through a
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  Speaker 1: steel people all silent or shouting only vive lanascion as
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  Speaker 1: harangued at the town hall by Moreaux of the three
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  Speaker 1: thousand orders, by King's Procureur, Monsieur Ethi de Corny, by
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  Speaker 1: lalid'nandal and others. Knows not what to think of it
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  Speaker 1: or say of it, learns that he is restorer of
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  Speaker 1: French liberty, as a statue of him, to be raised
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  Speaker 1: on the site of the Bastilleux, shall testify to all men. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: he is shown at the balcony with a trickler cockade
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  Speaker 1: in his hat. Is greeted now with vehement acclamation from
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  Speaker 1: square and street, from all windows and roofs, and so
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  Speaker 1: drives home again amid glad mingled and as it were,
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  Speaker 1: intermarried shouts of viveolroi and vivel a nacion, wearied but safe.
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  Speaker 1: It was Sunday when the red hot balls hung over
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  Speaker 1: us in mid air. It is now but Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: the revolution is sanctioned. An August National Assembly shall make
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  Speaker 1: the constitution, and neither foreign pand'ur domestic triumvirate with leveled
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  Speaker 1: cannon Guy Fawke's powder plots, for that too was spoken of.
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  Speaker 1: Nor any tyrannic power on the earth or under the earth,
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  Speaker 1: shall say to it what dost thou so jubilates the people,
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  Speaker 1: sure now of a constitution cracked. Marquis Saint de Rouge
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  Speaker 1: is heard under the windows of the chateau, murmuring sheer
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  Speaker 1: speculative treason. End of Book five, Chapter eighte