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33 - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand · Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty three of Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty.
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  Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imberte Saint
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  Speaker 1: amand translated by Elizabeth G. Martin Chapter thirty three the Temple.
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  Speaker 1: There are places which, by the souvenirs they evoke, seemed
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  Speaker 1: fatal and accursed. Such was the dungeon that was to
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  Speaker 1: serve as a prison for Luis the sixteenth and his family.
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  Speaker 1: The Great Tower, for which Marie Antoinette had felt a nameless,
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  Speaker 1: instinctive repugnance in the happiest days of her reign, arose
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  Speaker 1: at the extremity of Paris like a gigantic phantom, and
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  Speaker 1: recalled in a sinister fashion the tragedies of the Middle
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  Speaker 1: Ages and the somber legends of the Templars. It was
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  Speaker 1: formerly the manner the fortress of that religious and military
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  Speaker 1: order of the Temple found in the Holy Land at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the twelfth century, to protect pilgrims, and which,
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  Speaker 1: after the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, had spread
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  Speaker 1: all over Europe. The Great Tower was built by fair
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  Speaker 1: Hubert in the early years of the thirteenth century in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of an enclosure surrounded by turreted walls. There
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  Speaker 1: ruled by cross and sword, those men of iron in
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  Speaker 1: white habits, who took the triple vows of poverty, chastity
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  Speaker 1: and obedience, and who excited royal jealousy by the increase
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  Speaker 1: of their power. It was there that Philippe le Belle went,
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  Speaker 1: on October thirteenth, thirteen hundred and seven, with his lawyers
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  Speaker 1: and his archers, to lay his hand on the Grand Master,
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  Speaker 1: seized the treasures of the order, and on the same day,
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  Speaker 1: at the same hour, caused all templars to be arrested
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  Speaker 1: throughout the realm. Then began that mysterious trial which has
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  Speaker 1: remained an insoluble problem to posterity, and after which these
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  Speaker 1: monastic knights, whose bravery and whose exploits have made so
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  Speaker 1: prolonged an echo, perished in prisons or on scaffolds, Pursued
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  Speaker 1: by horrible accusations. They had confessed under torture, but they
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  Speaker 1: denied at execution. When the Grand Master, Jacques de Molay
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  Speaker 1: and the Commander of Normandy were burned alive before the
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  Speaker 1: garden of Philippe le Belle March eleventh, thirteen hundred and fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Even in the midst of flames, they did not cease
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  Speaker 1: to attest the innocence of the Order of the Temple.
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  Speaker 1: The people, astonished by their heroism, believed that they had
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  Speaker 1: summoned the Pope and the King to appear in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of God before the end of the year. Clement
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  Speaker 1: the fifth on April twentieth and Philip the Fourth on
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  Speaker 1: November twenty ninth obeyed the summons. The possession of the
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  Speaker 1: Order were given to the hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: who transformed themselves into Knights of Malta. Toward the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the sixteenth century, the Temple became the provincial house
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  Speaker 1: of the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta for
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  Speaker 1: the nation or language of France, and the Great Tower
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  Speaker 1: contained success the treasure, the arsenal and the archives. In
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hundred and seven, the Grand Prior, Jacques de Surrey,
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  Speaker 1: had a house built in front of the old manor
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  Speaker 1: between the court and the garden, which was called the
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  Speaker 1: Palace of the Grand Prior. His successor, Philippe de von Dame,
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  Speaker 1: made his palace a rendezvous of elegance in pleasure. There
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  Speaker 1: shone the Anacreon in a cassock, the gay and sprightly
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  Speaker 1: abbe de Chalieu, who died a fervent Christian in the
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  Speaker 1: voluptuous abode where he had dwelt a careless epicurean. There,
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  Speaker 1: young Valtaire went to complete the lessons he had begun
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  Speaker 1: in the skeptical circle of Ninot de Lanclais. The office
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  Speaker 1: of the Grand Prior, which was worth sixty thousand livres
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  Speaker 1: a year, passed afterwards to press de Cortille, who in
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  Speaker 1: seventeen hundred and sixty five sheltered Jean Jaques Rousseau. There
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  Speaker 1: as led to the cachet could not penetrate with its
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  Speaker 1: privileged precinct. Under Louis the sixteenth, the Palace of the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Prior had served as a passing hostelry to the
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  Speaker 1: young and brilliant Count d'Artois when he came from Versailles
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  Speaker 1: to Paris. The flowers of the entertainments given there by
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  Speaker 1: the Prince were hardly faded. When Louis the sixteenth suddenly
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  Speaker 1: entered it as a prisoner. It was seven o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the evening when the wretched king and his family, coming
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  Speaker 1: from the convent of the Fuignan, arrived at the temple,
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  Speaker 1: situated near Faubourg Saint Antoine, not far from the former
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  Speaker 1: site of the Bastill. The temple enclosure at this period
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  Speaker 1: was not more than two hundred yards long, by nearly
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  Speaker 1: as many wide. The rest of the ancient precinct had
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  Speaker 1: disappeared under the pavements or the houses of the great city. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the enclosure still formed a sort of little private city,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes called the vis Nieu de Temple, the gates of
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  Speaker 1: which were closed every night. In one of its angles
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  Speaker 1: stood the house called the Grand Prior's Palace. This was
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  Speaker 1: the first stopping place of the royal family, which had
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  Speaker 1: been entrusted by Pignon. To the surveillance of the municipality
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  Speaker 1: and the Guard of Sainterre. The municipal officers stayed close
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  Speaker 1: to the king, kept their hats on and gave him
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  Speaker 1: no title a except Monsieur Louis the sixteenth, not doubting
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  Speaker 1: that the palace of the Grand Prior was a residence
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  Speaker 1: assigned him by the nation until the close of his career,
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  Speaker 1: began to visit its apartments. While the municipal officers took
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  Speaker 1: a cruel pleasure in this error, thinking of the still
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  Speaker 1: keener one they would enjoy when they disabused him of it,
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  Speaker 1: He pleased himself by allotting the different rooms in advance.
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  Speaker 1: The word palace had an unpleasant sound to the persecutors
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  Speaker 1: of royalty. The temple tower looked more like a prison.
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  Speaker 1: Toward eleven o'clock, one of the commissioners ordered the August
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  Speaker 1: captives to collect such linen and other clothing as they
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  Speaker 1: had been able to procure and follow him. They silently
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  Speaker 1: obeyed and left the palace. The night was very dark.
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  Speaker 1: They passed through a double row of soldiers holding naked sabers.
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  Speaker 1: The municipal officers carried lanterns. One of them broke the
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  Speaker 1: dismal silence he had observed throughout the march. Thy master
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  Speaker 1: said he to Monsieur Eeux has been accustomed to gilded
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  Speaker 1: canopies very well. He is going to find out how
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  Speaker 1: we dodged the assassins of the people. The lamps in
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  Speaker 1: the windows of the old quadrangular dungeon, lighted up its
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  Speaker 1: high pinnacles and turrets, its gigantic profile and gloomy bulk.
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  Speaker 1: The immense tower, one hundred and fifty feet high and
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  Speaker 1: with walls nine feet thick, rose menacing and fatal amidst
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. Beside it was another tower, narrower and not
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  Speaker 1: so high, but which was also flanked by turrets. Thus
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  Speaker 1: the whole dungeon was composed of two distinct yet united towers.
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  Speaker 1: The second of these, called the Little Tower to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: it from the great one, was selected as a prison
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  Speaker 1: of the former hosts of Versailles Fontainebleau, and the tuileris
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  Speaker 1: the little tower of the temple, which had no interior
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  Speaker 1: communication with a great one against which it stood. Was
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  Speaker 1: a long quadrangle flanked by two turrets. Four steps led
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  Speaker 1: to the door, which was low and narrow and opened
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  Speaker 1: on a landing, at the end of which began a
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  Speaker 1: winding staircase shaped like a snail shell. Wide from its
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  Speaker 1: base as far as the first it grew narrower as
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  Speaker 1: it climbed up into the second. The door, which was
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  Speaker 1: considered too weak, was to be strengthened on the following day.
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  Speaker 1: By heavy bars and supplied with an enormous lock brought
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  Speaker 1: from the prisons of the chatelet. The queen was put
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  Speaker 1: on the second floor, and the king on the third.
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  Speaker 1: On entering his chamber, Luisa sixteenth found a miserable bed
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  Speaker 1: in an alcove, without tapestry or curtains. He showed neither ill,
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  Speaker 1: humor nor surprise. Engravings indecent for the most part, covered
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  Speaker 1: the walls. He took them down himself. I will not
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  Speaker 1: leave such objects before my children's eyes, said he. Then
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  Speaker 1: he lay down and slept tranquility. The first days of
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  Speaker 1: captivity were relatively calm. The prisoners consoled themselves by their
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  Speaker 1: family life, reading and above all prayer. Forgetting that he
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  Speaker 1: had been a king and remembering that he was a father,
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  Speaker 1: Louis the sixteen gave lessons to the Dauphin. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been worth while for the whole nation to be
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  Speaker 1: present at these lessons. They would have been both surprised
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  Speaker 1: and touched at all the sensible, cordial, and mainly things
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  Speaker 1: the good thing found to say when the map of
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  Speaker 1: France lay spread out before him, or concerning the chronology
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  Speaker 1: of his predecessors. Everything in his remarks showed the love
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  Speaker 1: he bore his subjects, and how greatly his paternal heart
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  Speaker 1: desired their happiness. What great and useful lessons one could
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  Speaker 1: learn in listening to this captive king instructing a child
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  Speaker 1: born to the throne and condemned to share the captivity
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  Speaker 1: of his parents. Souvenir deir courront aunts by Madame de
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  Speaker 1: bianne Ne, the Touselles, all those who had been authorized
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  Speaker 1: to follow the royal family to the temple, the Princess
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  Speaker 1: de Lambai, Madame de Touzelle and her daughters, Madame Thibeaud,
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  Speaker 1: Baser Navarre, messieurs de Chamier, a froucheois eu surrounded the
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  Speaker 1: captives with the most respectful and devoted attentions. But these
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  Speaker 1: noble courtiers of misfortune, these voluntary prisoners, who were so
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  Speaker 1: glad to be associated in their master's trials, were not
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  Speaker 1: long to enjoy an honor they had so keenly desired.
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  Speaker 1: In the night of August the eighteenth to the nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two municipal officers presented themselves, who were commissioned to fetch
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  Speaker 1: away all persons not belonging to the Cape family. The
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  Speaker 1: Queen pointed out in vain that the Princess de Lambay
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  Speaker 1: was a relative. The princes must go with the others
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  Speaker 1: in our position, has said Madame de Touzelle, the governess
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  Speaker 1: of the children of France. There was nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: but obey. We dressed ourselves and went to the Queen,
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  Speaker 1: to whom I resigned that dear little prince, whose bed
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  Speaker 1: had been carried into her room without awaking him. It
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  Speaker 1: was an indescribable torture for Madame de Touzelle to abandon
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  Speaker 1: the dauphin whom she cherished so tenderly, and whom she
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  Speaker 1: had educated since seventeen eighty nine. I abstained from looking
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  Speaker 1: at him, she adds, not only to avoid weakening the
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  Speaker 1: courage we had so much need of, but in order
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  Speaker 1: to give no room for cenchore, and so come back,
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  Speaker 1: if possible, to a place we left with so much regret.
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  Speaker 1: The Queen went instantly into the chamber of the Princess
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  Speaker 1: de Lambai, from whom she parted with the utmost grief.
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  Speaker 1: To Pauline and me, she showed a touching sensibility and
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  Speaker 1: said to me, in an undertone, if we are not
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  Speaker 1: so happy as to see you again, take good care
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  Speaker 1: of Madame de l'ambi do the talking on all important occasions,
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  Speaker 1: and spare her as much as possible from having to
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  Speaker 1: answer captious and embarrassing questions. The two municipal officers said
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  Speaker 1: to you, as Chamilli, are you the valet de chambre.
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  Speaker 1: On their affirmative response, the two faithful servants were ordered
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  Speaker 1: to get up and prepare for departure. They shook hands
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  Speaker 1: with each other, both of them convinced that they had
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  Speaker 1: reached the end of their existence. One of the municipal
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  Speaker 1: officers had said that very day in their presence, the
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  Speaker 1: guillotine is permanent and strikes with death. The pretended servants
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  Speaker 1: of Louis. When they descended to the Queen's and the chamber,
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  Speaker 1: a very small room in which the Princess de Lambay slept,
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  Speaker 1: they found that Princes and Madame de Touzelle already to
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  Speaker 1: start and clasped in one embrace with the Queen, the
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  Speaker 1: children and Madame Elizabeth. Tender and heart breaking farewells, presages
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  Speaker 1: of separations, more cruels. Still, all these exiles from the
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  Speaker 1: prison left at the same time. Only one of them,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Frouchoir Eu, was to return. He was examined at
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  Speaker 1: the Hotel de vill and at the close of this
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  Speaker 1: interrogation and order of a sign permitting him to be
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  Speaker 1: taken back to the tower, how happy I was, he writes,
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  Speaker 1: to return to the temple. I ran to the King's chamber.
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  Speaker 1: He was already up and dressed, and was reading as
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  Speaker 1: usual in the little tower. The moment he saw me,
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  Speaker 1: his anxiety to know what had occurred made him advance
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  Speaker 1: toward me, But the presence of the municipal officers and
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  Speaker 1: the guards who were near him made all conversation impossible.
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  Speaker 1: I indicated by a glance that for the moment, prudence
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  Speaker 1: forbade me to explain myself, Feeling the necessity of silence
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  Speaker 1: as well as myself, the King resumed his reading and
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  Speaker 1: waited for a more opportune moment. Some hours later, I
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  Speaker 1: hastily informed him what questions had been asked me and
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  Speaker 1: what I had replied. Den Nier Anne de Louis, says
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  Speaker 1: par froucheoir U the unfortunate sovereign, and doubtless believed that
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  Speaker 1: the others were also about to return vain hope. During
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  Speaker 1: the day, Manuel announced to the king that none of
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  Speaker 1: them would come back to the temple. What has become
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  Speaker 1: of them, asked Louis the sixteenth, anxiously, they are prisoners.
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  Speaker 1: Are the force returned Manuel? What are they going to
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  Speaker 1: do with the only servant I have left, asked the king,
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  Speaker 1: glancing at Monsieur Eu. The commune leaves him with you,
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  Speaker 1: said Manuel, But as he cannot do everything, men will
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  Speaker 1: be sent to assist him. I do not want them,
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  Speaker 1: replied Louis the sixteenth. What he cannot do, we will
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  Speaker 1: do ourselves. Please God, we will not voluntarily give those
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  Speaker 1: who have been taken from us the chagrin of seeing
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  Speaker 1: their places taken by others. In Manuel's presence, the Queen
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  Speaker 1: and Madame Melizabeth aided Monsieur Eugh to prepare the things
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  Speaker 1: most necessary for the new prisoners of the force. The
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  Speaker 1: two princesses arranged the packets of linen and other matters
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  Speaker 1: with the skill and activity of chambermts. Behold the heir
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  Speaker 1: of Louis the fourteenth, the King of Franz and Navarre,
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  Speaker 1: with but a single servant left him. He has but
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  Speaker 1: one coat, and at night his sister mends it. Behold
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of the German Caesars, with not even one
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  Speaker 1: woman to wait upon her, and who waits on herself incessantly,
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  Speaker 1: watched meanwhile by the inquisitors of the Commune, who cannot
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  Speaker 1: speak a word or make a gesture, unwitnessed by a
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  Speaker 1: squad of informers, who pursue her even into the chamber
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  Speaker 1: where she goes to change her dress, and who spy
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  Speaker 1: on her even when she is sleeping. And yet neither
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  Speaker 1: the calmness nor the dignity of the prisoners suffers any loss.
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  Speaker 1: There was but one thing that keenly annoyed Louis the sixteenth.
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  Speaker 1: It was when, on August the twenty fourth, they deprived him,
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  Speaker 1: the Chief of Gentlemen, of his sword. As if taking
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  Speaker 1: away his scepter were not enough, he consoled himself by prayer, meditation,
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  Speaker 1: and reading. He spent hours in the room containing the
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  Speaker 1: library of the keeper of Archives of the Order of Malta,
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  Speaker 1: who had previously occupied the little tower. One day, when
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  Speaker 1: he was looking for books, he pointed out to Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: Eu the works of Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Those
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  Speaker 1: two men have ruined France, said he in an undertone.
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  Speaker 1: On another day, he was pained by overhearing the insults
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  Speaker 1: heap on this faithful servant by one of the municipal guards.
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  Speaker 1: You have had a great deal to suffer to day,
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  Speaker 1: he said to him. Well, for the love of me,
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  Speaker 1: continue to endure everything. Make no answer. At another time
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  Speaker 1: he slipped into his hand a folded paper. This is
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  Speaker 1: some of my hair, said he. It is the only
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  Speaker 1: present I can give you at this moment. Monsieur Hugh
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  Speaker 1: exclaims in his pathetic book, Oh Shade Forever Cherished. I
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  Speaker 1: will preserve this precious gift to my latest day, the
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  Speaker 1: inheritance of my son. It will pass on to my descendants,
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  Speaker 1: and all of them will see this testimonial of Luisa
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth's goodness, that they had a father who medited the
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  Speaker 1: affection of his king by his fidelity. In the evenings,
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  Speaker 1: the Queen made the Dauphain recite this prayer, Almighty God,
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  Speaker 1: who created and redeemed me, I adore thee spare the
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  Speaker 1: lives of the King, my father, and those of my
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  Speaker 1: family defenders against our enemies. Grant Madame l Toouzelle the
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  Speaker 1: strength she needs to support the evils she endures on
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  Speaker 1: our account. And the Angel of the Temple with our
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  Speaker 1: Melisabeth recited every day, the sublime prayer of her own composition.
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  Speaker 1: What will happen to me to day? O, my God,
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  Speaker 1: I do not know. All I know is that nothing
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  Speaker 1: will happen that has not been foreseen by THEE from
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  Speaker 1: all eternity. It is enough, my God, to keep me tranquil.
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  Speaker 1: I adore Thy eternal designs. I submit to them with
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  Speaker 1: my whole heart. I will all, I accept, all, I
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice all to THEE. I unite the sacrifice to that
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  Speaker 1: of thy dear son, my Savior, asking THEE by his
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  Speaker 1: sacred heart and his infinite merits, the patience in our afflictions,
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  Speaker 1: and the perfect submission which is due to THEE for
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  Speaker 1: all that Thou viliest and permittest. One day, when she
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  Speaker 1: had finished her prayer, the saintly princess said to me, you,
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  Speaker 1: it is less for the unhappy king than for his
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  Speaker 1: misguided people that I pray. May the lawd deign to
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  Speaker 1: be moved and to look mercifully upon Franz. Then she added,
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  Speaker 1: with her admirable resignation, come, let us take courage. God
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  Speaker 1: will never send us more troubles than we are able
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  Speaker 1: to bear. The prisoners were permitted to walk a few
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  Speaker 1: steps in the garden every day to get a breadth
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  Speaker 1: of fresh air. But even there they were insulted as
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  Speaker 1: they passed by. The guards stationed at the base of
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  Speaker 1: the tower took pains to put on their hats and
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  Speaker 1: sit down. The sentry s crawled insults on the walls.
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  Speaker 1: Coporters maliciously cried out bad tidings, which were sometimes false.
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  Speaker 1: One day, one of them announced a pretended decree separating
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  Speaker 1: the king from his family. The Queen, who was near
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  Speaker 1: enough to hear distinctly the voice which told this news
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  Speaker 1: not exact as yet, was struck with the terror from
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  Speaker 1: which she did not recover. And yet there were still
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  Speaker 1: souls that gave way to compassion. From the upper stories
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  Speaker 1: of houses near the temple and closure. They were her
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  Speaker 1: eyes looking down into the garden, where the prisoners took
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  Speaker 1: their walk. The common people and the workmen living in
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  Speaker 1: these poor abodes were affected. Sometimes, to show her gratitude
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  Speaker 1: for the sympathy of those unknown friends, Marie Antoinette would
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  Speaker 1: remove her veil and smile. When the Little Dauphire was playing,
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  Speaker 1: there would be hands at the windows joined as to applaud.
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  Speaker 1: Flowers would sometimes fall, as if by chance, from a
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  Speaker 1: garret roof to the queen's feet, and occasionally it happened
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  Speaker 1: that when the captives had gone back to their prison,
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  Speaker 1: they could hear, in the darkness the echo of some
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  Speaker 1: royalist refrain hummed by a passer by in the silence
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  Speaker 1: of the night. The Temple Tower is no longer in existence.
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  Speaker 1: Bonaparte visited it when he was counseled. There are too
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  Speaker 1: many souvenirs in that prison, he exclaimed, I will tear
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  Speaker 1: it down. In eighteen hundred and eleven. He kept his promise.
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  Speaker 1: The Palace of the Grand Prior was destroyed in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three. No trace remains of that famous
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  Speaker 1: enclosure of the templars, whose legend had no somber a poetry,
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  Speaker 1: but it has left an impress on the imagination of
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  Speaker 1: peoples which will never be effaced. It seems to rise
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  Speaker 1: again gigantic, that tower where the son of Saint Louis
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  Speaker 1: realized not only the type of the antique sage of
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  Speaker 1: whom Horace said impivadum ferient ruiniai, but also the purest
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  Speaker 1: ideal of the true Christian. Does not the name Temple
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  Speaker 1: seem predestined for a spot which was to be sanctified
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  Speaker 1: by so many virtues, and where the martyr King put
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  Speaker 1: in practice these verses of the Imitation of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: his favorite book. It needs no great virtue to live
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  Speaker 1: peaceably with those who are upright and amiable. One is
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  Speaker 1: naturally pleased in such society. We always love those whose
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  Speaker 1: sentiments agree with ours. But it is very praiseworthy and
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  Speaker 1: the effect of a special grace and great courage to
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  Speaker 1: live in peace with severe and wicked men who are
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  Speaker 1: disorderly or who contradict us. He who knows best how
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  Speaker 1: to suffer will enjoy the greatest peace. Such a one
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  Speaker 1: is the conqueror of himself, master of the world, the
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  Speaker 1: friend of Jesus Christ, and the inheritor of Heaven. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter thirty three. Read for you by Chikito Crastor, Birmingham, Alabama.