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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: plaintive look, and wore it during the whole way to the ceremony, which disposed public opinion very favourably towards her. Madame Dubarry was brave; she possessed that confidence which is given by youth and beauty. Besides, had not everything been said that could be said of her? What could be added now? She appeared radiant with beauty, as if the splendour of her august lover had been reflected upon her. The Duke d'Aiguillon marched boldly among the peers who preceded the king; his noble and impressive countenance betrayed no symptoms of grief or discontent, nor did he bear himself triumphantly. To see him walking thus, none would have guessed that the struggle of the king with his parliament was on his account. The crowd pointed him out in the crowd, terrible glances were darted at him from the parliament, and that was all. The great hall of the Palais was crammed to overflowing; actors and spectators together made a total of more than three thousand persons. Outside the Palais the crowd, kept in order by the staves of the officers, and the batons and maces of the archers, gave token of its presence only by that indescribable hum whiOB is not a voice, which articulates nothing, but which nevertheless makes itself heard, and which may justly be called the sound of the popular flood. The same silence reigned in the great hall, when, the sound of footsteps having ceased, and every one having taken his place, the king, majestic and gloomy, had commanded his chancellor to begin the proceedings. The parliament knew beforehand what the bed of justice held in reserve for them; they fully understood why they had been convoked. They were to hear the unmitigated expression of the royal will; but they knew the patience, not to say the timidity, of the king, and if they fe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217279833 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021727983X |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 432 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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