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042 - Book 7 Chapter 3 Black Cockades · 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 seven, The Insurrection of Women, Chapter three, Black Cockades.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter Dan, Book seven, Chapter three, Black Cockades. But fancy
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  Speaker 1: what effect this thiistes repast and trampling on the national
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  Speaker 1: cockade must have had in the Salle des Meneux, in
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  Speaker 1: the famishing Baker's cues at Paris. Nay, such thiistes repast,
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  Speaker 1: it would seem continue Flandre has given its counter dinner
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  Speaker 1: to the Swiss, and hundred Swiss. Then on Saturday there
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  Speaker 1: has been another. Yes, here with us is famine, but
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  Speaker 1: yonder at Versailles is food enough, and to spare. Patriotism
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  Speaker 1: stands in cue, shivering, hunger struck, insulted by petrolatism, while
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  Speaker 1: bloody minded aristocrats heated with the excess of living high
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  Speaker 1: trample on the national cockade. Can the atrocity be true? Nay?
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  Speaker 1: Look green uniforms faced with red black cockades, the color
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  Speaker 1: of night. Are we to have military onfall and death
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  Speaker 1: also by starvation? For behold the Corbet corn boat, which
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  Speaker 1: used to come twice a day with its plaster of
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  Speaker 1: Paris meal now comes only once, and the town hall
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  Speaker 1: is deaf, and the men are laggered and dastard. At
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  Speaker 1: the Cafe de Fire this Saturday evening, a new thing
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  Speaker 1: is seen, not the last of its kind. A woman
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  Speaker 1: engaged in public speaking. Her poor man, she says, was
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  Speaker 1: put to silence by his district. Their presidents and officials
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  Speaker 1: would not let him speak. Wherefore she here, with her
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  Speaker 1: shrill tongue, will speak denouncing, while her breath endures. The
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  Speaker 1: corbet boat, the plaster of Paris, bread, sacrilegious opera, dinner's
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  Speaker 1: green unif forms, pirate aristocrats, and those black cockades of theirs. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: it is time for the black cockades, at least to
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  Speaker 1: vanish them. Petrolatism itself will not protect, nay, sharp tempered
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Tassan at the Tuileries Parade on Sunday morning forgets
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  Speaker 1: all national military rule, starts from the ranks, wrenches down
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  Speaker 1: one blockade which is swashing ominous there, and tramples it
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  Speaker 1: fiercely into the soil of France. Petrolatism itself is not
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  Speaker 1: without suppressed fury. Also, the districts begin to stir the
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  Speaker 1: voice of President Danton reverberates in the Cordelliers. People's friend
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  Speaker 1: mar has flown to Versailles and back again. Swart bird
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  Speaker 1: not of the Halcian kind. And so patriot meets promenading
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  Speaker 1: patriot this Sunday and sees his own grim care reflected
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  Speaker 1: on the face of another. Groups in spite of petrolatism
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  Speaker 1: which is not so alert as you usual, fluctuate deliberative
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  Speaker 1: groups on the bridges, on the keys at the patriotic cafes,
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  Speaker 1: and ever as any black cockade may emerge, rises the
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  Speaker 1: many voiced growl and bark a bah down. All black
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  Speaker 1: cockades are ruthlessly plucked off. One individual picks his up again,
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  Speaker 1: kisses it, attempts to refix it, but a hundred canes
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  Speaker 1: start into the air, and he desists, still worse when
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  Speaker 1: it with another individual doomed by extemporary pleblacetum to the lantern,
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  Speaker 1: saved with difficulty by some active corps de garde Lafayettese
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  Speaker 1: signs of an effervescence which he doubles his patrols, doubles
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  Speaker 1: his diligence to prevent. So passes Sunday, the fourth of
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  Speaker 1: October seventeen eighty nine. Sullen is the male heart repressed
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  Speaker 1: by petrolatism. Vehement is the female irrepressible. The public speaking
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  Speaker 1: woman at the Palais Royal was not the only speaking one.
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  Speaker 1: Men know not what the pantry is when it grows empty.
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  Speaker 1: Only house mothers know o women wives of men that
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  Speaker 1: will only calculate and not act. Patrolatism is strong, but
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  Speaker 1: death by starvation and military enfold is stronger. Patrolatism represses
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  Speaker 1: male patriotism, but female patriotism will. Guards named national thrust
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  Speaker 1: their bayonets into the bosoms of women. Such thought or other,
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  Speaker 1: such dim unshaped raw material of a thought ferments universally
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  Speaker 1: under the female nightcap, and by earliest daybreak on slight
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  Speaker 1: hint will explode. End of Book seven, Chapter three,