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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. THE CIRCULAR. Bur the Constituted Authorities, all this while 1 The Legislative Assembly; the Six Ministers; the Townhall; San- terre with the National Guard 1?It is very curious to think what a City is. Theatres, to the number of some twenty- three, were open every night during these prodigies; while right-arms here grew weary with slaying, righ1-arms there were twiddledeeing on melodious catgut: at the very instant when Abbe Sicard was clambering up his second pair of shoulders three-men high, five hundred thousand human individuals were lying horizontal, as if nothing were amiss. As for the poor Legislative, the sceptre had departed from it. The Legislative did send Deputation to the Prisons, to these Street-Courts; and poor M. Dusaulx did harangue there; but produced no conviction whatsoever: nay at last, as he continued haranguing, the Street-Court interposed, not without threats; and he had to cease, and withdraw. This is the same poor worthy old M. Dusaulx who told, or indeed almost sang (though with cracked voice), the Taking of the Bastille, to our satisfaction, long since. He was wont to announce himself, on such and on all occasions, as the Translator of Juvenal. Good Citizens, you see before you a man who loves his country, who is the Translator of Juvenal, said he once.? Juvenal T interrupts Sansculottism: Who the devil is Juvenal? One of your sacrh Aristocrates? To the Lanterne I From an orator of this kind, conviction was 1792. not to be expected. The Legislative had much ado to save one of its own Members, or Ex-Members, Deputy Jounneau, who chanced to be lying in arrest for mere Parliamentary delinquencies, in these Prisons. As for poor old Dusaulx and Company, they returned to the Salle de Manage, saying, It was dark; and they ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217193139 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217193137 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $21.79 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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