This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ... " come the dignity of the Assembly to at" tend to so contemptible a Ministry." Thus terminated that memorable Sitting, in which Louis XVI, ever impelled by his fatal reliance on the love and allegiance of the French, voluntarily stripped himself of all the means of supporting his authority, at a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ... " come the dignity of the Assembly to at" tend to so contemptible a Ministry." Thus terminated that memorable Sitting, in which Louis XVI, ever impelled by his fatal reliance on the love and allegiance of the French, voluntarily stripped himself of all the means of supporting his authority, at a moment when the most powerful would scarcely have been sufficient tQ preserve it. He chose rather to leave his Throne without support to the mercy of all the factious who wished to overthrow it, and his own person without defence to the discretion of a people armed and delirious, than to flied th$ blood of any one of his subjects, .-. CHAPCHAPTER X. The Electors generally censured--Their Embarrassment--The Commander of the Parisian Militia superseded--M. de la Fayctte appointed in his flead, on the Command being refused by the Duke d'Aumont--M. Bailly appointed Mayor--Arrival os the Deputation from the Assembly at the Hotelde-Ville--Speeches--Acclamations and Transports of. Joy--Te Deum at Notre Dame--Conduit of the Electors and of the Assembly--Mr. Necker recalled--Re- treat os the new Ministry--r-The King goes to Paris, accompanied by a numerous Deputation of the Assembly--Departure os the Duchess de Polignac--Sitting held by the' King at the Hotel-deVille--The King receives the National Y 4 Cockade Cockade--Speech made by M. de Lally--General Joy--The King's return to Verfailles. It was soon known at (Paris that the Assembly had not experienced any of the dangers with which it was said to have been menaced; that the pretended refusal of the. cannoniers to obey Marshal Broglio, and all the projects of vengeance attributed to the Ministers, were but ridiculous fables, destitute of every kind of foundation. Alarms and suspicions all vanished, and...
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Add this copy of Annals of the French Revolution, Volume 1 to cart. $69.50, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
