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024 - Book 4 Chapter 3 Grown Electric · 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 four, States General, Chapter three, Grown Electric. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain read by Peter Dan
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  Speaker 1: Book four, Chapter three, Grown Electric. But now also national
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  Speaker 1: deputies from all ends of France are in Paris, where
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  Speaker 1: their commissions what they call pouvoirs or powers in their pockets, inquiring, consulting,
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  Speaker 1: looking out for lodgings at Versailles. The States General shall
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  Speaker 1: open there, if not on the first, then surely on
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of May, into grand procession and gala. The
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  Speaker 1: Solda Manu is all new, carpentered, but dissened for them.
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  Speaker 1: Their very costume has been fixed. A grand controversy which
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  Speaker 1: there was as to slouch hats or slouched hats for
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  Speaker 1: the common Deputies has got as good as adjusted ever.
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  Speaker 1: New strangers, lounges, miscellaneous persons, offices on furlough, as the
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  Speaker 1: worthy Captain damp Martin, whom we hope to be acquainted with.
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  Speaker 1: These also from all regions, have repaired hither to see
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  Speaker 1: what is toward our Paris committees of the sixty districts
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  Speaker 1: are busier than ever. It is now too clear the
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  Speaker 1: Paris elections will be late on Monday, the twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: of April. Astronomer Bayis notices that the Sieur ravillonne is
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  Speaker 1: not at his post. The Sieur Ravillon, extensive paper manufacturer
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  Speaker 1: of the Rue Saint Antoine, he commonly so punctual, is
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  Speaker 1: absent from the electoral committee, and even will never reappear
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  Speaker 1: there in those immense magazines of velvet paper has ought
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  Speaker 1: to be fallen. Alas, yes, alas, it is no more
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  Speaker 1: golvia a rising there today, but drudgery rascality in the
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  Speaker 1: suburb that is rising. Was the Sir Ravillon himself once
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  Speaker 1: a joemen heard to say that a journeyman might live
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  Speaker 1: handsomely on fifteen sous a day some sevenpence hapney tis
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  Speaker 1: a slender sum I was he only thought and believed
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  Speaker 1: to be heard saying it. By this long chafing and friction,
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  Speaker 1: it would appear the national temper has grown electric down
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  Speaker 1: in those dark dens, in those dark heads and hungry hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows in what strange figure the new political evangel
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  Speaker 1: may have shaped itself, what miraculous communion of drudges may
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  Speaker 1: be getting formed. Enough grim individuals soon waxing to grim
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  Speaker 1: multitudes and other multitudes crowding to sea beset that paper
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  Speaker 1: warehouse demonstrate in loud ungrammatical language, addressed to the passions too,
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  Speaker 1: the insufficiency of sevenpence hapney a day. The city watch
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  Speaker 1: cannot dissipate them. Broils arise and bellowings. Rivellon, at his
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  Speaker 1: wits end, entreats the populace, entreats the authorities. Bessonval now
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  Speaker 1: an active command commandant of Paris, does towards evening to
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  Speaker 1: Ravillon's earnest prayers and some thirty guard Francaise. These clear
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  Speaker 1: the street happily without firing, and take posts there for
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  Speaker 1: the night, in hope that it may be all over.
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  Speaker 1: Not so on the morrow it is far worse. Saint
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  Speaker 1: Antoine has arisen, a new grimmer than ever, reenforced by
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  Speaker 1: the unknown tattered Domalian figures, where their enthusiast complexion and
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  Speaker 1: large sticks. The city through all streets is flowing thitherward
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  Speaker 1: to see two cartloads of paving stones that happen to
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  Speaker 1: pass that way have been seized as a visible God.
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  Speaker 1: Send another detachment of guard Francise must be sent. Bessonvalles
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  Speaker 1: and the colonel, taking earnest counsel, then still another, They hardly,
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  Speaker 1: with bayonets and menace of bullets, penetrate to the spot.
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  Speaker 1: What a sight, a street choked up with lumber, tumult,
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  Speaker 1: and the endless press of men, A paper warehouse eviscerated
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  Speaker 1: by axe and fire, mad din of revolt, musket volleys
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  Speaker 1: responded to by yells, by miscellaneous missiles, by tiles raining
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  Speaker 1: from roof and windows, tiles, execrations and slain men. The
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  Speaker 1: guard Franseies like it not, but have to persevere all day.
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  Speaker 1: It continues slackening and rallying. The sun is sinking, and
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  Speaker 1: Saint Antoine has not yielded. The city flies hither and thither.
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  Speaker 1: Alas the sound of that musket volleying booms into the
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  Speaker 1: far dining rooms of the Chose d'Antin alters the tone
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  Speaker 1: of the dinner gossip There, Captain demp Martin leaves his wine,
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  Speaker 1: goes out with a friend or two to see the fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Unwashed men growl on him with murders of a barlais.
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  Speaker 1: Aristocrats down with the aristocrat and insult the cross of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis. They elbow him and hustle him, but do
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  Speaker 1: not pick his pocket as indeed at Ravean's too, there
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  Speaker 1: was not the slightest stealing. At fall of night, as
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  Speaker 1: the thing will not end, Bessonval takes his resolution, orders
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  Speaker 1: out the Guard Swiss with two pieces of artillery. The
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  Speaker 1: Swiss Guard shall proceed thither, summon that rabble to depart
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  Speaker 1: in the King's name. If disobeyed, they shall load their
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  Speaker 1: artillery with grape shot visibly to the general eye. Shall
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  Speaker 1: again summon, if again disobeyed, fire and keep firing till
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  Speaker 1: the last man be in this manner blasted off, and
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  Speaker 1: the street clear. With which spirited resolution, as might have
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  Speaker 1: been hoped, the business is god ended. At sight of
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  Speaker 1: the lit matches of the foreign red coated switzers, Saint
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  Speaker 1: Antoine dissipates hastily. In the shep aids of dusk. There
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  Speaker 1: is an encumbered street. There are from four to five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dead men. Unfortunate Ravillon has found shelter in the bastille.
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  Speaker 1: Does therefrom safe behind stone bullwarks issue plaint protestation explanation
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  Speaker 1: for the next month. Bold Bessonval has thanks from all
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  Speaker 1: the respectable Parisian classes, but finds no special notice taken
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  Speaker 1: off him. At Versailles, a thing the man of true
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  Speaker 1: worth is used to. But how it originated? This fierce
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  Speaker 1: electric sputter and explosion from dr Leon cry the court party,
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  Speaker 1: He with his gold enlisted these brigands. Surely in some
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  Speaker 1: surprising manner, without sound of drum, he raked them in
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  Speaker 1: hither from all corners to ferment and take fire. Evil
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  Speaker 1: is his good? From the court cries enlightened patriotism. It
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  Speaker 1: is the cursed golden whiles of aristocrats that enlisted them,
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  Speaker 1: set them up upon ruining an innocinceur ravillan to frighten
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  Speaker 1: the faint and discussed men with the career of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Bessonval with reluctance, concludes that it came from the English,
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  Speaker 1: our natural enemies or alas might not one rather attribute
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  Speaker 1: it to Diana in the shape of hunger, to some
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  Speaker 1: twin dioscury, oppression and revenge so often seen in the
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  Speaker 1: battles of men, poor lackals, all betoiled, besoiled, encrusted into
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  Speaker 1: dim defacement, into whom, nevertheless the breath of the Almighty
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  Speaker 1: has breathed a living soul to them. It is clear
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  Speaker 1: only that eleutheromaniac philosophism has yet baked no bread, that
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  Speaker 1: patriotic committee men will level down to their own level,
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  Speaker 1: and no lower brigands or whatever they might be. It
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  Speaker 1: was bitter earnest with them. They bury their dead with
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  Speaker 1: the title of de fanceur de la patrie Martyrs of
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  Speaker 1: the good cause, or shall we say insurrect has now
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  Speaker 1: served its apprenticeship, and this was its proof stroke, and
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  Speaker 1: no inconclusive one. Its next will be a master stroke
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  Speaker 1: announcing indisputable mastership to a whole astonished world. Let that
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  Speaker 1: rock fortress Tyrannies stronghold, which they named bastille or building,
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  Speaker 1: as if there were no other building, look to its guns.
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  Speaker 1: But in such wise, with primary and secondary assemblies and
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  Speaker 1: care year of grievances, with motions congregations of all kind,
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  Speaker 1: with much thunder of froth eloquence, and at last with
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  Speaker 1: thunder of platoon musketry, does agitated France accomplish its elections
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  Speaker 1: with confused winnowing and sifting. In this rather tumultuous manner,
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  Speaker 1: it has now all except some remnants of Paris sifted
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  Speaker 1: out the true wheat grains of National Deputies twelve hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen in number, and will forthwith open its States
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  Speaker 1: general in the book four, Chapter three