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  Speaker 1: Volume two, Continuation Part one of Memoirs of the Court
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  Speaker 1: of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campin. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Continuation from the committal to the
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  Speaker 1: Temple to the death of Louisay's Part one. The faithful
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  Speaker 1: and elegant relation of the weaknesses, the sorrows, the sufferings
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  Speaker 1: attributable to nothing less than the sins of the unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: royal family of France, terminates abruptly with the separation of
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  Speaker 1: their illustrious narrator, Madame Campin, from the August victim, whom
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  Speaker 1: she had served so faithfully through such vicissitudes of splendor
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  Speaker 1: and despair, of magnificence and misery. That separation occurred on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth day of August seventeen ninety two, when Louis
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  Speaker 1: with Marie Antoinette, Madame Elizabet, the King's sister, Madame Royal,
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  Speaker 1: the King's daughter. Afterwards, Duchess Dujoulem, and the du Fay,
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  Speaker 1: the Princess de Nobal, one male and two or three
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  Speaker 1: female attendants were conveyed to the temple. When Pition, the
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  Speaker 1: infamous Mayor of Paris, refused to Madame compon the sad
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  Speaker 1: consolation of sharing the imprisonment and endeavoring at least to
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  Speaker 1: alleviate the sufferings of her royal mistress. This cruelty was
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  Speaker 1: feedily followed by worse barbarities. On pretense of suspicious circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: The Princess de Nabel and all the female attendants were
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  Speaker 1: removed by the orders of the insurrectionary Commune, now the
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  Speaker 1: executive or rather so supreme power of France, the former
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  Speaker 1: to be confined in the common prison called Le Baille,
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  Speaker 1: whence she was never to issue until the day of
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  Speaker 1: her atrocious murder. The temple in which the royal family
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  Speaker 1: was now immured is no other than the old castolated pile,
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  Speaker 1: half monastery, half fortress, formerly the possession and abode of
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  Speaker 1: the celebrated Order of Knights, templars from which they had
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  Speaker 1: been driven out to the Gibbet, the Faggot and the
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  Speaker 1: Rack five centuries before on a false charge of necromancy
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  Speaker 1: and magic by the then ancestor of its present tenant.
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  Speaker 1: It consisted of two parts, one called the Palace, into
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  Speaker 1: which the royal family were placed in the first instance,
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  Speaker 1: the other known as the Tower. The ancient keep or
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  Speaker 1: dungeon of the place to which they were consigned on
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  Speaker 1: the very night of their arrival. The prison was composed
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  Speaker 1: of a high square tower we quote from the history
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  Speaker 1: of the French Revolutions recently issued in chambers People's addition,
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  Speaker 1: flanked by two turrets, in one of which was a
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  Speaker 1: binding staircase leading to a terrace on the top. In
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  Speaker 1: each story of the tower were three rooms, when being
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  Speaker 1: simply the size of the turret and very small, the
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  Speaker 1: first story was occupied by guards and municipal officers, the
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  Speaker 1: second by the Queen and the princesses, and the third
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  Speaker 1: by the King and the faithful Clerie. The only attendant
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  Speaker 1: left to wait on the whole family after the removal
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  Speaker 1: of Monsieur Eye, who was carried off on the second
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  Speaker 1: of September and narrowly escaped the murders of that period,
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  Speaker 1: a municipal officer was constantly on guard in each of
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  Speaker 1: the upper stories. During the day, he sat in the
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  Speaker 1: same room with the prisoners, and by his presence prevented
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  Speaker 1: them from holding confidential intercourse, a restraint they found of
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  Speaker 1: all others the most irksome and galling. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: one lay at the door of the King's room with
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  Speaker 1: the bed in sight. The other watched over the queen
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  Speaker 1: in like manner, but had the decency to allow the
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  Speaker 1: door to be closed. The life led by the prisoners
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  Speaker 1: was pretty uniform, except when disturbed by the caprices of
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  Speaker 1: municipals with a larger share of vulgar arrogance than was
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  Speaker 1: usual with their fellows. At first, it would appear that
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  Speaker 1: some degree of decency was observed towards the unfortunate royal family,
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  Speaker 1: although restrictions the more cruel because utterly unnecessary, such as
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  Speaker 1: the constant presence of the rudest and most brutal of
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  Speaker 1: the populace as superintendents and watchers, was inflicted on them
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  Speaker 1: day and night. Although but one personal attendant was permitted
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  Speaker 1: to the royal family, a measure attributed to the jealousy
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  Speaker 1: of extreme precaution. Thirteen are said to have been employed
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchens allowed to the establishment, though it is
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  Speaker 1: very difficult to see if how so many could be
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  Speaker 1: employed in preparing food for three adults and two children,
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  Speaker 1: and though the fact rests only on the authority of Monsieurtier,
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  Speaker 1: who never gives his data and must be admitted a
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  Speaker 1: most partial or rather partisan historian, and twenty eight thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred forty five livres about five thousand, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars were the expenses of the table. During two months.
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  Speaker 1: No news of any kind was, however, permitted to enter
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  Speaker 1: the precincts of the temple, save the tidings of victories
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  Speaker 1: gained by the Republic over the invading Austrian and Prssion forces,
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  Speaker 1: which were regularly sent into the prison by the representatives
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  Speaker 1: of the Commune, not as an act of mercy, but
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  Speaker 1: as a refinement of cruelty, since these tidings, proving the
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  Speaker 1: inability of their friends to rescue them by force of arms,
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  Speaker 1: served only to deprive them of every hope. Up to
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  Speaker 1: the period when the trial and punishment of the royal
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  Speaker 1: prisoner Louis began to be very seriously mooted, the lives
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  Speaker 1: of the prisoners were as uniform as they were sad
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  Speaker 1: and monotonous, and are thus simply and therefore the more
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  Speaker 1: touchingly related by the faithful attendant Cleri, who devoted himself
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  Speaker 1: with a fidelity more like that of a canine than
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  Speaker 1: of the human species, to alleviate the miseries of his
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  Speaker 1: hapless master from whom he parted only at the foot
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  Speaker 1: of the scaffold, which he was soon to ascend. The best,
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  Speaker 1: if the weakest, of dethroned and decapitated kings. The largest
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  Speaker 1: room was the queen's bedchamber, in which the Daufain also slept.
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  Speaker 1: The second, which was separated from the queen's by a
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  Speaker 1: small ante chamber, almost without light, was occupied by Madame
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  Speaker 1: Royal and Madame medi Zabet. This chamber was the only
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  Speaker 1: way to the turret room of this story, and the
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  Speaker 1: turret room was the only place of office for this
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  Speaker 1: whole range of building, being in common for the royal family,
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  Speaker 1: the municipal officers, and the soldiers. The king's apartments were
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  Speaker 1: on the third story. He slept in the great chamber
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  Speaker 1: and made a study of the churrech closet. There was
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  Speaker 1: a kitchen, separated from the king's chamber by a small
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  Speaker 1: dark room, which had been successfully occupied by Monsieur de
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  Speaker 1: Chemilie and Monsieur de Ylle, and on which the seals
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  Speaker 1: were now fixed. The fourth story was closed, and on
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  Speaker 1: the ground floor there were kitchens, of which no use
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  Speaker 1: was now made. The king usually rose at six in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. He shaved himself, and I dressed his hair.
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  Speaker 1: He then went to his reading room, which being very small.
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  Speaker 1: The municipal officer remained on duty in the bed chamber,
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  Speaker 1: that he might always keep the King in sight. His
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  Speaker 1: Majesty continued praying on his knees till seven or eight o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: and then read till nine. During that interval, after putting
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  Speaker 1: his chamber to rights and preparing the breakfast, I went
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  Speaker 1: down to the Queen, who never opened her door till
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  Speaker 1: I arrived, in order to prevent the municipal officer from
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  Speaker 1: going into her apartment. Note this and the previous statement
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  Speaker 1: concerning the kitchens on the ground floor being closed, appear
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  Speaker 1: utterly to contradict the statement of Monsieur Thier. And we
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  Speaker 1: regard the words of the faith for domestic is far
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  Speaker 1: more credible than that of the revolutionary partisan. And note
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  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock, the Queen, the children, and Madame Dihezibet
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  Speaker 1: went up to the King's chamber to breakfast. At ten,
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  Speaker 1: the King and his family went down to the Queen's chamber,
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  Speaker 1: and there passed the day. He employed himself in educating
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  Speaker 1: his son, made him recite passages from Colnai and Racine,
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  Speaker 1: gave him lessons in geography and exercised him in coloring
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  Speaker 1: the maps. The Queen, on her part, was employed in
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  Speaker 1: the education of her daughter, and these different lessons lasted
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  Speaker 1: till eleven o'clock. The remaining time till noon was passed
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  Speaker 1: in needlework, knitting or making tapestry. At one o'clock, when
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  Speaker 1: the weather was fine, the royal family were conducted to
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  Speaker 1: the garden by four municipal officers and a commander of
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  Speaker 1: a legion of the National Guards. At two we returned
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  Speaker 1: to the tower, where I served the dinner, at which
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  Speaker 1: time Sainteal regularly came to the temple, attended by two
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  Speaker 1: aids de comt. The king sometimes spoke to him the
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  Speaker 1: queen never. In the evening, the family sat round a
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  Speaker 1: table while the Queen read to them books of history
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  Speaker 1: or other works proper to instruct and amuse the children.
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  Speaker 1: Madame Dizabet took the book in her turn, and in
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  Speaker 1: this manner they read till eight o'clock. After the Dauphain
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  Speaker 1: had supped, I undressed him, and the Queen heard him
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  Speaker 1: say his prayers. At nine, the King went to supper,
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  Speaker 1: and afterwards went for a moment to the queen's chamber,
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  Speaker 1: shook hands with her and his sister for the night,
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  Speaker 1: kissed his children, and then retired to the turret room,
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  Speaker 1: where he sat reading till midnight. The queen and the
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  Speaker 1: princesses locked themselves in, and one of the municipal officers
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  Speaker 1: remained in the little room which parted their chamber, where
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  Speaker 1: he passed the night. The other followed his majesty. In
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  Speaker 1: this manner, the time was passed as long as the
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  Speaker 1: king remained in the little tower. End we learned from
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  Speaker 1: other authorities that the favorite authors of Louis were Plato, Hume, Bossuet, Finelon, Montesquieu,
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  Speaker 1: and the French tragedians Colnais, Racine and Voltaire, and from
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  Speaker 1: the same source that the turret chamber of the suite,
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  Speaker 1: used as dining and sitting rooms, contained a small library
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  Speaker 1: of twelve to fifteen hundred volumes, which proved the greatest
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  Speaker 1: solace of the captives. Thus things passed on with a
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  Speaker 1: monotonous tranquility, interrupted only by the anticipations of their future
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  Speaker 1: fate and the occasional insults of their brutal keepers and
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  Speaker 1: yet more brutal visitors from the commune. Insults endured by
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  Speaker 1: the King with a calm and patient dignity, which would
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  Speaker 1: have been absolute heroism had it not been attributable in
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  Speaker 1: some degree to the natural indifference of an impassive temper
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  Speaker 1: by the Queen with a haughty scorn, interrupted by occasional
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  Speaker 1: bursts of feminine spirit, until the hideous massacres of the
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  Speaker 1: prisoners in all the places of detention throughout the metropolis
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  Speaker 1: from the second to the seventh of September. These massacres,
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  Speaker 1: which mister Carlyle attempts to palliate by representing them as
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  Speaker 1: no more horror or detestable than any other equal amount
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  Speaker 1: of death, whether resulting from famine, war, or pestilence, and
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  Speaker 1: which other apologists of the revolutionary crimes have attempted to
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  Speaker 1: ascribe entirely to the casual fury of the mob, were
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  Speaker 1: in reality planned deliberately by Danton Merres and other members
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  Speaker 1: of the Mountain Party, as is proved by the fact
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  Speaker 1: that pits filled with quicklime were prepared for the reception
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  Speaker 1: of the corpses in anticipation of their slaughter by the
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  Speaker 1: orders of Manuel and Pition. In the course of these
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  Speaker 1: deliberate slaughters, the prisoners being arraigned before mock tribunals, and
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  Speaker 1: then slaughtered with every species of torture, insult, and indignity,
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  Speaker 1: even to the maiming of corpses, slaughters interrupted by regular intervals,
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  Speaker 1: during which the corpses were removed, while the workmen Ouvrie,
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  Speaker 1: as they were then termed, quietly sat down ate their
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  Speaker 1: dinners brought to them in baskets by their wives and daughters,
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  Speaker 1: drank wine supplied to them by the authorities, and received
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  Speaker 1: wages from the commune. Slaughters greedily inspected by the fiendish
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  Speaker 1: women of the period, who insisted on having the streets
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  Speaker 1: illuminated by night, that they might glut their woman eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the sufferings and the carnage, which ceased not day
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  Speaker 1: or night. In the course of these slaughters. It is
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  Speaker 1: variously computed that prisoners of all sexes, ages and ranks,
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  Speaker 1: from the wanton in the hospital of the Bistre to
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  Speaker 1: the Princess and the abbeyee were deliberately butchered by authority
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  Speaker 1: to the number of eight and up to fourteen thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Of all these, none was more hideous or brutal than
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  Speaker 1: that of the Princess de Lamballe. She was young very beautiful, gentle,
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  Speaker 1: kindly disposed to all moderate in her opinions, had never
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  Speaker 1: taken any part in politics, but she was beloved by
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  Speaker 1: the Queen, was the friend of the King. And with
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  Speaker 1: these crimes against her, what could her virtues avail? In
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  Speaker 1: her behalf with a revolutionary mob. On her mock trial,
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  Speaker 1: she consented to swear fealty to liberty and equality, but
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  Speaker 1: refused to swear hatred to the King, the Queen, and loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: This was her condemnation, with the by word let Madame
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  Speaker 1: be set at liberty the fatal sentence. At the Abbee,
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  Speaker 1: she was consigned to her murderers. The atrocities which followed
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  Speaker 1: are thus described by eye witnesses. And though they are
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  Speaker 1: like to make the blood to run cold and the
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  Speaker 1: hair to bristle with horror, it is yet good to
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  Speaker 1: contemplate them in order to perceive more clearly of what
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  Speaker 1: the people, whose voice a philosopher has proclaimed the voice
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  Speaker 1: of God, is capable when controlled by no laws human
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  Speaker 1: or divine, and left to the guidance of its own
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  Speaker 1: unbridled temper. The Princess den Abel, having been spared on
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  Speaker 1: the night of the Second, flung herself on her bed,
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  Speaker 1: Oppressed with every species of anxiety and horror. She closed
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  Speaker 1: her eyes, but only to open them in an instant,
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  Speaker 1: startled with frightful dreams. About eight o'clock next morning, two
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  Speaker 1: national guards entered her room to inform her that she
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  Speaker 1: was going to be removed to the Abbeee. She slip
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  Speaker 1: on her gown and went downstairs into the sessions room.
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  Speaker 1: When she entered this frightful court, the sight of weapons
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  Speaker 1: stained with blood, and of executioners whose hands, faces, and
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  Speaker 1: clothes were smeared over with the same red dye gave
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  Speaker 1: her such a shock that she fainted several times. At length,
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  Speaker 1: she was subjected to a mock examination, after which, just
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  Speaker 1: as she was stepping across the threshold of the door,
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  Speaker 1: she received on the back of her head a blow
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  Speaker 1: with a hanger, which made the blood spout. Two men
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  Speaker 1: then laid fast hold of her and obliged her to
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  Speaker 1: walk over dead bodies while she was fainting every instant.
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  Speaker 1: They then completed her murder by running her through with
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  Speaker 1: their spears on a heap of corpses. She was afterwards
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  Speaker 1: stripped and her naked body exposed to the insults of
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  Speaker 1: the populace In this state. It remained more than two hours.
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  Speaker 1: When any blood gushing from its wound stained the skin,
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  Speaker 1: Some men placed there for the purpose immediately washed it off,
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  Speaker 1: to make the spectators take more particular notice of its whiteness.
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  Speaker 1: I must not venture to describe the excesses of barbarity
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  Speaker 1: and lustful indecency with which this corpse was defiled. I
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  Speaker 1: shall only say that a cannon was charged with one
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  Speaker 1: of the legs. Towards noon, the murderers determined to cut
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  Speaker 1: off her head and carry it in triumph round Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Her other scattered limbs were also given to troops of cannibals,
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  Speaker 1: who trailed them along the streets. The pike that supported
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  Speaker 1: the head was planted under the very windows of the
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  Speaker 1: Duke of a Leons. He was sitting down to dinner
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  Speaker 1: at the time, but rose from his chair and gazed
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  Speaker 1: at the ghastly spectacle without discovering the least symptom of uneasiness, terror,
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  Speaker 1: or satisfaction. Madame de Lambell's sincere attachment to the queen
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  Speaker 1: was her only crime in the midst of our commotions.
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  Speaker 1: She had played no part. Nothing could render her suspected
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  Speaker 1: by the people to whom she was only known by
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  Speaker 1: repeated acts of beneficence. When summoned to the bar of
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  Speaker 1: l False, many among the crowd besought pardon for her,
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  Speaker 1: and the assassins for a moment stood doubtful, but soon
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  Speaker 1: murdered her. Immediately they cut off her head and her breasts.
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  Speaker 1: Her body was opened, her heart torn out, and the
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  Speaker 1: tigers who had so mangled her took a barbarous pleasure
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  Speaker 1: in going to show her head and heart to Louisay's
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  Speaker 1: and his family at the temple. Madame de Lamballe was beautiful, gentle, obliging,
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  Speaker 1: and moderate, even the cynical pantagruelist Carlyle, who, in his
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  Speaker 1: strange admiration for whatever is strong, stringent, energetic, and decisive,
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  Speaker 1: whether in man or masses, apologizes for every crime and cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: and grins and gibbers with grim exaltation over all suffering
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  Speaker 1: and sorrow of the feeble minded. Great, in his bitter
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  Speaker 1: scorn of all that is weak, is moved by this
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  Speaker 1: fiendish deed to an eloquence, as Niaikin to pity, as
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  Speaker 1: his stern and hard nature is capable of that emotion.
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  Speaker 1: What followed is thus related by mister Redhead and chained
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  Speaker 1: the first popular edition of the French Revolutions, which I
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  Speaker 1: prefer to the narration of Monsieurtier, as it is fuller
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  Speaker 1: and far more circumstantial, while it states honestly both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the picture, the historian of the revolution, carefully concealing
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  Speaker 1: all the darker traits of the scene, while he shows
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  Speaker 1: all the gentler and more redeeming traits. The murder of
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  Speaker 1: the Princess de la Belle recalled to memory the illustrious
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  Speaker 1: captives of the temple, who seemed to have been forgotten
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  Speaker 1: up to that moment. A detachment of the assassins employed
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  Speaker 1: at Lafosse now moved towards their prison, bearing aloft the
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  Speaker 1: head and the heart of the princess, and followed by
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  Speaker 1: a tumultuous rabble. The king and his family were at
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  Speaker 1: dinner when they heard the tumult caused by their arrival.
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  Speaker 1: They rose from table in great alarm, but the municipal
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  Speaker 1: officers on guard over them maintained a dog in silence
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  Speaker 1: and refused to satisfy their anxious inquiries. The outer gate, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: was besieged by the multitude who demanded admittance and access
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  Speaker 1: into the interior of the temple to lay the head
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  Speaker 1: of lam Beale, as the ringleader expressed it, at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the throne. Certain commissioners of the Commune, who
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  Speaker 1: had been deputed to protect the asylum of the national hostages.
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  Speaker 1: For such a Louis and his family were denominated, parleyed
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  Speaker 1: with the assailants, and agreed to admit them into the
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  Speaker 1: court and garden of the tower, on their promising to
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  Speaker 1: proceed no farther. Such a promise was, of course purely derisory,
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  Speaker 1: and it is certain that the lives of the royal
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  Speaker 1: family were abandoned to the mercy or discretion of these murderers. Resistance,
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  Speaker 1: the commissioners had resolved amongst themselves would be impolitic, dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps unjust, And in fact, the muskets of the
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  Speaker 1: National Guards had been purposely left unloaded and their bayonets
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  Speaker 1: taken from them. Therefore, no material obstacle opposed to the assassins.
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  Speaker 1: The way was made smooth before them. But they had
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  Speaker 1: undoubtedly secret instructions and pretended to respect a tri colored
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  Speaker 1: ribband which the municipal officers had hung across the door
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  Speaker 1: of the tower in a accordance with a stale device,
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  Speaker 1: which furnished tortors with the theme of much lively bombast.
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  Speaker 1: They insisted, however, that the King and Queen should show
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  Speaker 1: themselves at the windows, that they might see the head
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  Speaker 1: of the princess and learn the fate that was in
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  Speaker 1: store for the enemies of the people. Finding that their
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  Speaker 1: interpolations were not regarded for the officers with the king,
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  Speaker 1: happened to be men of some humanity, kept him and
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  Speaker 1: the queen from going to the window. They asserted that
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  Speaker 1: the royal family had been removed from the temple, and
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  Speaker 1: claimed that a deputation should be permitted to enter and
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  Speaker 1: verify the fact. To this demand, the commissioners were fain
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to accede, and four of the ruffians were taken to
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the room in which the royal family were assembled. One
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: of these, more forward than the rest, was urgent that
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the King and queen should show themselves, but the municipal
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: officers positively refused to allow them, whereupon he turned to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the queen and said, it is labez head. They want
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to keep you from seeing, but I advise you to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: show yourself if you would not have the avengers come
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: up here. On hearing these words, the Queen immediately fainted.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: The King advanced to the wretch and rebuked him with sternness.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: We are prepared, sir, for everything he observed to him,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: but you might have spared the Queen the relation of
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: this horrible disaster. The deputation then hastily withdrew and guaranteed
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to the mob without that the hostages were at all
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: events safe within their dungeons. But for several hours gangs
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of miscreant continued around the prison, bellowing with fearful howls,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: beating with furious discordance, loud resonant drums, and renewing every
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: moment the dread of a violent eruption. It was eight
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in the evening before tranquility was restored in the neighborhood
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of the temple, and the royal captives left to snatch
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: some repose after the cruel agitations of the day end.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: From this fearful moment, the sufferings, no less than the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: fears of the royal family were cruelly augmented. There is
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: strict and the impertinent annoyances of their democratic visitors increased daily.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: The King's sword was taken from him, and then the pen,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: knives and scissors of the princesses were demanded as if
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they would have committed suicide. When they went out to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: walk in the garden, the guards insulted them with obscene language,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: puffed smoke in their faces, and purposely obstructed their way,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: treading on their feet and otherwise pressing on their persons.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: In fact, nothing that low bred cruelty could devise was
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: omitted for their torture. For what torture can be greater
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to the high minded and delicately bred and nobly nurtured
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: than the contamination of contact and endurance of obscenity and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: insult from the low and profane rabble. It is related
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: by Clarie in his journal that one of the soldiers
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: on guard within the tower wrote one day on the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: King's chamber door, and that on the inside the guillotine
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: is permanent and ready for their tyrant Louis. As the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: King read the words, which I made an attempt to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: rub out, but his majesty prevented me. Up to this period,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the royal family had been detained merely, as it was expressed,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: as national hostages, and royalty was considered as not abolished,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: but merely suspended. The time had now, however, come when
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: this farce was to be brought to a termination. Accordingly,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: we quote as before from Clarie's Journal of the Sufferings
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of the Royal Captives. Quote on the twenty first of September,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: at four o'clock in the afternoon, Loubet, a municipal officer,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: attended by horsemen and a great mob, came before the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: tower to make a proclamation. Trumpets were sounded, and a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: dead silence ensued. Liubain's voice was of the stentorian kind.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: The royal family could distinctly hear the proclamation of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: abolition of royalty and of the establishment of a republic. Ibert,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: so well known by the name of Peals Ducha and Dejurnelles,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: since made Minister of the Public Contributions, were then on
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: guard over the family. They were sitting in the time
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: near the door, and rudely stared the king in the face.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: The monarch perceived it, but having a book in his hand,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: continued to read without suffering the smallest alteration to appear
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in his countenance. The Queen displayed equal resolution. At the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: end of the proclamation, the trumpet sounded again, and I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: went to the window. The eyes of the populace were
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: immediately turned upon me. I was taken for my royal
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: master and overwhelmed with abuse. The same evening I informed
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the King that curtains and more clothes were wanting for
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Duphain's bed, as the weather began to be cold.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: He desired me to write the demand for them, which
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: he signed. I used the same expressions that I had
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: hitherto done. The King requires for his son, and so forth.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It is a great piece of assurance in you, said Detournelles.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Thus to persist in a title abolished by the will
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of the people, as you have just heard. I replied
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that I had heard a proclamation, but was unacquainted with
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the object of it. It is rejoined he for the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: abolition of royalty, and you may tell the gentleman pointing
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to the King, to give over taking a title no
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: longer acknowledged by the people. I told him I could
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: not alter this note, which was already signed, as the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: King would ask me the reason, and it was not
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: my part to tell him. You will do as you like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: continued Detournelles, but I shall not certify the demand. End
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: of continuation, Part one