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History of the Great French Revolution, a 2nd (3rd) Course of Lectures

History of the Great French Revolution, a 2nd (3rd) Course of Lectures

Besant, Annie Wood

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ISBN10: 115077357X
ISBN13: 9781150773570
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...the face of the Titan of the Revolution. And when they saw him, tranquil, dreamy, melancholy, or sometimes laughing, they withdrew astonished and subdued. 2 The Girondins, it will be remembered, were at first merely committed to the custody of the gens d'armes, but as feeling rose against them during the summer the strictness of their imprisonment had increased, and they were confined in turn in the Abbaye, the Luxembourg, the Carmes, and 1 History of the Girondists. Lamartine, vol. iii., pp. 162--6. 3 Camille Dosmoulius and his Wife. Jules Clare Uo, pp. 254,255. finally in the Conciergerie, under the same roof which covered the fallen queen of France. Here they spent their last days of life. Here was played the epilogue of that great tragedy. Lamariine has sketched for us the incidents of the closing scene, and has shown us how well these men knew how to die. Brissot read to his colleagues the pages in which he hequeathed their justification to posterity. Gensonne preserved the bitterness of his sarcasm, and revenged himself on his enemies by his contempt for them. Lasource illuminated the abysses of anarchy by the fire of his ardent imagination Carra constantly formed new combinations and new divisions of territories between the powers of Europe. Fauchet and Sillery alone returned in face of death to their old creed. Ducos and Fonfrede, young men whose natural gaiety the gloom of a prison and the approach of death could not damp, wrote verses, affected the lightheartedness of happier times, and only recovered their gravity and regret in the confidences of their heroic friendship, and their mutual apprehension for each other's fall. Valaze looked upon the approach of death as the consummation of the sacrifice...

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