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31 - 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 one of Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty.
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  Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de
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  Speaker 1: Saint amand translated by Elizabeth G. Martin, Chapter thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: The results of the combat. The results of the combat
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  Speaker 1: were at the Assembly, the decree of suspension, or rather
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  Speaker 1: the decree of deposition at the Tuileries, devastation, massacre, and conflagration.
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  Speaker 1: From the moment when he ordered his last defenders to
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  Speaker 1: lay down their arms, Louis the sixteenth was but the
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  Speaker 1: phantom of a king. While the fight was going on,
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  Speaker 1: Robespierre had remained in hiding, Marat had not quitted the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of a cellar. Even Danton, the man of audacity,
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  Speaker 1: did not show himself until after the last shot had
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  Speaker 1: been fired. But now that fate had declared for the revolution,
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  Speaker 1: those who were trembling and hesitating a moment since were
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  Speaker 1: those who talked the loudest. Louis the sixteenth, who had
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  Speaker 1: been dreaded a few minutes ago, was insulted and jeered
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  Speaker 1: at the National Assembly. Royalist in the morning became the
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  Speaker 1: accomplice of the republicans. During the day, it perceived moreover
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  Speaker 1: that the tenth of August was aimed at it, not
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  Speaker 1: less than at the throne, and that its own downfall
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  Speaker 1: would be contemporaneous with that of royalty. Uguenais, the president
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  Speaker 1: of the new Commune, came boldly to the bar and
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  Speaker 1: said to the deputies, the people is your sovereign as
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  Speaker 1: well as ours. Another individual likewise at the bar exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: in a menacing tone, for a long time, the people
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  Speaker 1: has asked you to pronounce the deposition, and you have
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  Speaker 1: not even yet pronounced the suspension. Know that the julery
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  Speaker 1: is on fire, and that we shall not extinguish it
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  Speaker 1: until the vengeance of the people has been satisfied. Vergnio,
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  Speaker 1: who in the morning had promised the king the support
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  Speaker 1: of the Assembly, no longer even attempted to stemp the
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary tide. He came down from the president's chair and
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  Speaker 1: went to a desk to write the decree which should
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  Speaker 1: give a legislative form to the will of the insurrection.
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  Speaker 1: In virtue of this decree, which Vernio read from the Tribune,
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  Speaker 1: and which was unanimously adopted, the royal power was suspended
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  Speaker 1: and a national convention convoked. In reality this was a
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  Speaker 1: veritable deposition, and yet the Assembly still hesitated to give
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  Speaker 1: the last shock, which should approved the royal tree that
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  Speaker 1: had sheltered beneath its branches so many faithful generations. He
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  Speaker 1: declared that, in default of a civil list, a salary
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  Speaker 1: should be granted to the king during his suspension, that
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  Speaker 1: Louis the sixteenth and his family should have a palace
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  Speaker 1: the Luxembourg for a residence, and that he should be
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  Speaker 1: appointed governor of the Prince Royal. Concerning this, Madame de
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  Speaker 1: Steyle has remarked in her Consideracio surle principo enmorment de
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  Speaker 1: la re beluchieur Francaise. Ambition for power mingled with the
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  Speaker 1: enthusiasm of principles in the Republican of seventeen hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety two, and several among them offered to maintain royalty
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  Speaker 1: if all the ministerial places were given to their friends.
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  Speaker 1: The throne they attacked served to shelter them, and it
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  Speaker 1: was not until after they had triumphed that they found
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  Speaker 1: themselves exposed before the people. What the Girondin wanted was
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  Speaker 1: merely a chance in the ministry. It was not a revolution.
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  Speaker 1: Whenno felt that he had been distanced when he read
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  Speaker 1: the Act of deposition, his voice was sad, his attitude dejected,
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  Speaker 1: and his action feeble. Did he foresee that the king
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  Speaker 1: and himself would die at the same place, on the
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  Speaker 1: same scaffold, only nine months apart. Louis sixteenth listened to
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  Speaker 1: the invectives launched against him and to the decree depriving
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  Speaker 1: him of royal power, without a change of color. At
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  Speaker 1: the very moment when the vote was taken, he bent
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  Speaker 1: towards Deputy Custard, who sat beside the box of the logograph,
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  Speaker 1: and said, with the greatest tranquility, what you are doing
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  Speaker 1: there is not very constitutional. Impassive and speaking of himself
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  Speaker 1: as of a king who had lived a thousand years before,
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  Speaker 1: he leaned his elbows on the front of the box
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  Speaker 1: and looked on, like a disinterested spectator at the lugubrious
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  Speaker 1: spectacle that was unrolled before him. Marie Antoinette, on the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: was shuddering. So long as the combat lasted. A secret
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  Speaker 1: hope had thrilled her. But when she saw them bringing
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  Speaker 1: to the assembly and laying on the table the jewel cases,
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  Speaker 1: trinkets and portfolios which the insurgents had just taken from
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  Speaker 1: her bedroom, attituleries. When she heard the victorious cries of
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  Speaker 1: the rioteers, when Vernio's voice sounded in her ear like
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  Speaker 1: a funeral knell, she could hardly contain her grief and indignation.
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  Speaker 1: For one instant she closed her eyes, but presently she
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  Speaker 1: haughtily raised her head. The tide was rising, rising incessantly.
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  Speaker 1: Petitioners demanded, sometimes the deposition and sometimes the death of
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  Speaker 1: the king. This dialog was overheard between the painter David
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  Speaker 1: and meland E Tienville, who were talking together about Louis
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  Speaker 1: the sixteenth. Would you believe it just now? He asked me,
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  Speaker 1: as I was passing his box, if I would soon
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  Speaker 1: have his portrait finished? Bach, And what do you say
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  Speaker 1: that I would never paint the portrait of a tyrant
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  Speaker 1: again until I should have his head in my hat, admirable?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know a more sublime answer. Even in antiquity,
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  Speaker 1: the demands of the revolution grew greater from minute to minute.
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  Speaker 1: In the decree of Deposition, which had been voted on
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  Speaker 1: Ernio's proposition. It was stipulated that the ministers Sho could
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  Speaker 1: continue to exercise their functions. A few instants later, brisau
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  Speaker 1: caused it to be decreed that they had lost the
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  Speaker 1: nation's confidence. A new ministry was nominated during the session.
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  Speaker 1: The three ministers dismissed before June the twentieth, Crolon, Clavier,
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  Speaker 1: and Chevron were reinstalled by acclamation in the ministries of
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  Speaker 1: the Interior, of Finances and of War. The other ministers
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  Speaker 1: were chosen by ballot. D'Anton was nominated to that of
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  Speaker 1: Justice by two hundred and eighty two votes, Moges to
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  Speaker 1: the Marine by one hundred and fifty, and le Brune
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  Speaker 1: ton Dieu to Foreign Affairs by one hundred. This ballot
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  Speaker 1: established the fact that out of seven hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: nine members composing the Assembly, but two hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: four were present. Two days before, six hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: had voted on the question concerning Lafayette, and now, at
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  Speaker 1: the moment of the final crisis, not more than two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four could be found. All the others
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  Speaker 1: had disappeared through fear or through disgust. The revolution was
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  Speaker 1: accomplished by an assembly thus reduced, and a commune whose
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  Speaker 1: members had appointed themselves. Marie Antoinette, in her pridus Queen,
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  Speaker 1: was unable to conceive that there could be anything serious
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  Speaker 1: in such a government. When le brunton Dieu's appointment was announced,
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  Speaker 1: she leaned towards Bigod the Sacroix and said, in his years,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you will none the less believe yourself, Minister
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  Speaker 1: of foreign Affairs. The unfortunate royal family was still prisoners
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  Speaker 1: in the narrow box of the logo graph. The heat
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  Speaker 1: there was horrible. The sun scorched the white walls of
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  Speaker 1: this furnace, where the captives listened as in a place
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  Speaker 1: of torture, to the most ignoble insults and the most
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  Speaker 1: sanguinary threats. At seven o'clock in the evening, Count Fouchouard
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  Speaker 1: de la Rochefouct succeeded in approaching the box of the logograph.
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  Speaker 1: He thus describes its aspect. At this hour I approached
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  Speaker 1: the King's box. It was unguarded except by some wretches
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  Speaker 1: who were drunk and paid no attention to me, So
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  Speaker 1: that I half opened the door. I saw the King
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  Speaker 1: with the fatigued and downcast face. He was sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the front of the box, coldly observing through his lorgnette
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  Speaker 1: the scoundrels who were talking, sometimes one after another and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes altogether. Near him was the Queen, whose tears and
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  Speaker 1: perspiration had completely drenched her fichu and her handkerchief. The
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  Speaker 1: Daufare was asleep on her lap and resting partly also
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  Speaker 1: on that of Madame de Tourzelle. Madame Elizabeth de l'ambai,
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  Speaker 1: and Madame the King's daughter were at the back of
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  Speaker 1: the box. I offered my services to the King, who
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  Speaker 1: replied that it would be too dangerous to try to
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  Speaker 1: see him again, and added that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: Luxembourg that evening. The Queen asked me for a handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: I had none. Mine had served to bind up the
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  Speaker 1: wounds of the Viscount de Maier, whom I had rescued
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  Speaker 1: from some pikeman. I went out to look for a
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  Speaker 1: handkerchief and borrowed one from the keeper of the refreshment room.
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  Speaker 1: But as I was taking it to the Queen, the
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  Speaker 1: sentinels were relieved, and I found it impossible to approach
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  Speaker 1: the box. We have just seen what occurred at the
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  Speaker 1: assas tembly after the close of the combat. Cast now
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  Speaker 1: a glance at the tuilorees. What horrible scenes, What cries
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  Speaker 1: of grief, how many wounded, dead and dying? What streams
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  Speaker 1: of blood? What had become of those Swiss who, either
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  Speaker 1: in consequence of their wounds or through some other motive,
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  Speaker 1: had been obliged to remain at the palace. Eighty of
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  Speaker 1: them had defended the Grand staircase like heroes against an
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  Speaker 1: immense crowd, and died after prodigies of valor. Seventeen Swiss,
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  Speaker 1: who were posted in the chapel and who had not
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  Speaker 1: fired a shot since the fight began, hoped to save
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  Speaker 1: their lives by laying down their arms. It was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: They had their throats cut like the others. Two ushers
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  Speaker 1: of the King's chamber, Messieurs Paya and the Marches, sword
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  Speaker 1: in hand and hats pulled down over their eyes, said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to live any longer. This is our post.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to die here, and they were killed at
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  Speaker 1: the door of their master's chamber. Monsieur Dieu died in
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  Speaker 1: the same way at the threshold of the Queen's bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: A certain number of nobles were had not followed the
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  Speaker 1: king to the assembly, succeeded in escaping the blows of
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  Speaker 1: the assassins. Passing through the suite of large apartments towards
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  Speaker 1: the Louver gallery, they rejoined there some soldiers detailed to
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  Speaker 1: guard an opening contrived in the flooring so as to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the assailants from entering by that way. They crossed
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  Speaker 1: this opening on boards and reached the extremity of the
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  Speaker 1: gallery unhindered. Then, going down the staircase of Katharine de Medici,
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  Speaker 1: they managed to gain the streets near the louver. These
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  Speaker 1: may have been saved, But woe to all men, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what their conditions, who remained in the tuileries, domestic servants, ushers, laborers.
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  Speaker 1: Every soul was put to death. They killed, even the dying,
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  Speaker 1: even the surgeons who were caring for the wounded. It
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  Speaker 1: was Babaru himself who described the murderers as cowardly fugitives
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  Speaker 1: during the action, assassins after the victory, butchers of dead bodies,
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  Speaker 1: which they stabbed with their swords so as to give
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  Speaker 1: themselves the honors of the combat. In the apartments, on
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  Speaker 1: roofs and in cellars, they massacre. The Swiss armed or
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  Speaker 1: disarmed the chevalier soldiers and all who peopled the chateau.
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  Speaker 1: Our devotion was of no avail, said Barbaroux. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: were speaking to men who no longer recognized us, and
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  Speaker 1: the women what was their fate. When the firing began,
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  Speaker 1: the queen's ladies and the princesses descended to Marie Antoinette's
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  Speaker 1: apartments on the ground floor. They closed the shutters, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to incur less danger, and lighted a candle so as
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  Speaker 1: to not be in total darkness. Then Mademoiselle paulined to Zelle, exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: let us light all the candles in the chandelier, the sconsers,
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  Speaker 1: and the torches. If the brigands force open the door,
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  Speaker 1: the astonishment of so many lights will cause them may
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  Speaker 1: delay the first blow and give us time to speak.
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  Speaker 1: The ladies set to work. When the invaders broke in,
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  Speaker 1: saber in hand. The numberless lights, which were repeated also
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  Speaker 1: in the mirrors, made such a contrast with the daylight
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  Speaker 1: they had just left, that for a moment they remained stupefied.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the Princess de Tarente, Madame de Laroche, Imon
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  Speaker 1: Mademoiselle de Touzelle, Madame de Geniston, and all the other
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  Speaker 1: ladies were about to perish when a man with a
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  Speaker 1: long beard made his appearance, crying to the assassins in
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  Speaker 1: Peton's name, spare the woman, do not dishonor the nation.
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  Speaker 1: Madame Campan had attempted to go up a stairway in
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of her sister. The murderers followed her. She already
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  Speaker 1: felt a terrible hand against her back, trying to seize
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  Speaker 1: her by the clothes, when some one cried from the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the stairs, what are you doing up there? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: said the murderer in a tone They did not soon
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  Speaker 1: leave the trembling woman's years. The other voice replied, we
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  Speaker 1: don't kill women. The revolution goes fast, it will kill
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  Speaker 1: them next year. Madame Campan was on her knees. Her
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  Speaker 1: executioner let go his hold. Get up, hussy, he said
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  Speaker 1: to her, the nation spares you. In going back, she
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  Speaker 1: walked over cropses. She recognized that of the old y
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  Speaker 1: Count de Brove's. The Queen had sent word to him
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  Speaker 1: and to another old man as the last night began,
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  Speaker 1: that she desired them to go home. He had replied,
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  Speaker 1: we have been only too obedient to the King's orders
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  Speaker 1: in all circumstances when it was necessary to expose our
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  Speaker 1: lives to save him. This time we will not obey,
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  Speaker 1: and will simply preserve the memory of the Queen's kindness.
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  Speaker 1: What a side the tuiloreaths presented, people walking on nothing
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  Speaker 1: but dead bodies. A comic actor drank a glass of blood,
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  Speaker 1: the blood of a Swiss, one might have thought himself
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  Speaker 1: at a feast of Atreus. The furniture was broken, the
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  Speaker 1: secretaries foast upon the mirrors smashed to pieces. Trudon, the
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  Speaker 1: journalist of the Revolutiono de Paris, thinks that Medici's Antoinette
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  Speaker 1: had too long studied in them. The hypocritical look shechverz
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  Speaker 1: in public. What a sinister carnival. Drunken women and prostitutes
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  Speaker 1: put on the Queen's dresses and sprawled on a bed.
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  Speaker 1: Through the cellar gratings, one can see a thousand hands
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  Speaker 1: groping in the sand and drawing forth bottles of wine.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere people are laughing, drinking, killing. The royal wine runs
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  Speaker 1: in streams, torrents of wine, torrents of blood. The apartments,
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  Speaker 1: the staircase, the vestibule are crimson pools, disfigured corpses, pictures
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  Speaker 1: thrust through with pikes, musicians, stands thrown on the altar,
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  Speaker 1: the organ dismounted, broken. That is how the chapel looks.
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  Speaker 1: But to rob and murder is not enough. They will
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  Speaker 1: kindle a conflagration. It devours the stables of the mounted guards,
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  Speaker 1: all the buildings in the courts, the house of the
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  Speaker 1: Governor of the palace, eighteen hundred yards of barracks, huts
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  Speaker 1: and houses. Already the fire is gaining on the pavilion
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  Speaker 1: of Marchad and the pavilion of Flora. The flames are
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  Speaker 1: perceived at the assembly. A deputy asks to have the
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  Speaker 1: firemen sent to fight this fire, which threatens the whole
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  Speaker 1: quarter Honore. Somebody remarks that this is the commune's business.
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  Speaker 1: But the Commune, to use a phrase then in Vogue,
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  Speaker 1: thinks it has something else to do besides preventing the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of the tyrant's palace. It turns a deaf year.
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  Speaker 1: The messenger returns to the assembly. It is remarked that
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  Speaker 1: the flames are doing terrible damage. The President decides to
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  Speaker 1: send orders to the firemen, but the firemen returns saying,
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  Speaker 1: we can do nothing. They are firing on us. They
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  Speaker 1: want to throw us into the fire. What is to
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  Speaker 1: be done? The President bethinks himself of a patriot architect,
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  Speaker 1: citizen Paioe, who generally makes his appearance whenever there are
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  Speaker 1: patriotic demolitions to be accomplished. It is he whom they
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  Speaker 1: send to the palace and who succeeds in getting the
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  Speaker 1: flames extinguished. The julearees are not burned up this time.
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  Speaker 1: The work of the incendiaries of seventeen hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: two was only to be finished by the petroleeurs of
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  Speaker 1: eighteen hundred and seventy one. Night was come a great
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  Speaker 1: number of the Parisian population were groaning where the revolutionists triumphed.
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  Speaker 1: With joy. Curiosity to see the morning battlefield urged the indolent,
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  Speaker 1: who had stayed at home all day. Towards the quay,
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  Speaker 1: the Chazalise and the Tuileries. They looked at the trees
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  Speaker 1: under which the Swiss had fallen, at the windows of
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  Speaker 1: the apartments were the massacres had taken place, at the
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  Speaker 1: ravages made by the hardly extinguished fire, the buildings in
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  Speaker 1: the three courts Court of the princes court royal coat
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  Speaker 1: of the Swiss had been completely consumed. Thenceforward, these three
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  Speaker 1: courts formed only one, separated from the carousel by a
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  Speaker 1: board partition, which remained until eighteen hundred and was replaced
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  Speaker 1: by a grating finished on the very day when the
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  Speaker 1: first Consul came to install himself at the Tuileries. The inscription,
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  Speaker 1: which was placed above the wooden partition on August tenth
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  Speaker 1: Royalty was abolished. It will never rise again disappeared even
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  Speaker 1: before the proclamation of the Empire. Squads of laborers gathered
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  Speaker 1: up the dead bodies and threw them into tumbrils. At midnight,
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  Speaker 1: an immense pile was erected on the carousel with timbers
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  Speaker 1: and furniture from the palace. There the corpses of the
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  Speaker 1: victims that had strewed the courts, the vestibule, and the
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  Speaker 1: apartments were heaped up and set on fire. The National
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  Speaker 1: Guard had disappeared. It figured with the King and the
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  Speaker 1: assembly itself among the vanquished of the day, instead of
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  Speaker 1: its bayonets and uniforms. Once saw nothing in the stations
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  Speaker 1: and patrols that divided Paris but pikes and tatters. Some
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  Speaker 1: one came to tell me relates Madame de Stale, that
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  Speaker 1: all of my friends who had been on guard outside
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  Speaker 1: the palace had been seized and massacred. I went out
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  Speaker 1: at once to learn the news. The coachman who drove
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  Speaker 1: me was stopped at the bridge by men who silently
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  Speaker 1: made signs that they were murdering on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: After two hours of useless efforts to pass, I learned
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  Speaker 1: that all those in whom I was interested were still living,
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  Speaker 1: but that most of them had been obliged to hide
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  Speaker 1: in order to escape the proscription with which they were threatened.
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  Speaker 1: When I went to see them in the evening on
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  Speaker 1: foot and in the mean houses where they had been
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  Speaker 1: able to find shelter, I found armed men lying before
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  Speaker 1: the doors, stupid but drink, and only half waking to
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  Speaker 1: utter execrable curses. Several women of the people were in
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  Speaker 1: the same state, and their vociferations were more odious. Still,
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  Speaker 1: Whenever all intended to maintain order made its appearance, honest
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  Speaker 1: people fled out of its way. For what they called
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  Speaker 1: maintaining order was to contribute to the triumph of assassins
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  Speaker 1: and rid them of all hindrances. At last, the city
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  Speaker 1: was going to rest a while after so much emotion.
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  Speaker 1: It was three o'clock in the morning. The Assembly, which
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  Speaker 1: had been in session for twenty four hours, adjourned. Only
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  Speaker 1: a few members remained in the Hall. To maintain the
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  Speaker 1: permanence proclaimed at the beginning of the crisis, The inspectors
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  Speaker 1: of the Hall came for Louis the sixteenth and his family,
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  Speaker 1: to conduct them not to the Luxembourg, but to the
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  Speaker 1: upper story of the convent of the Fayon, above the corridor,
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  Speaker 1: where the officers and committees of the Assembly had been established.
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  Speaker 1: It was there, in the cells of the monks that
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  Speaker 1: the royal family were to pass the night. Then all
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  Speaker 1: was silent once s more royalty was dying. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirty one Read for you by Chikito Craster, Birmingham, Alabama.