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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... most unanimously. Strange, impressive sight this, of a club of Revolutionists holding their debates in the church of a former Jacobin monastery, whence this new order of a Church Militant took its name. On the 13th of July a promiscuous crowd from the Palais Royal and other centres of agitation was ...
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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. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... most unanimously. Strange, impressive sight this, of a club of Revolutionists holding their debates in the church of a former Jacobin monastery, whence this new order of a Church Militant took its name. On the 13th of July a promiscuous crowd from the Palais Royal and other centres of agitation was closely packed in the sombre, ill-lighted vault, where pre-eminent among tombs of buried monks, was a monument to Campanella, the great sixteenth-century apostle of religious liberty, whose spiritual presence there was a kind of consecration. Brissot seemed to grow with the moment, and in a memorable burst of eloquence carried the whole assembly with him. Brissot, without absolutely attacking the monarchical principle, insisted on the necessity of the King's deposition, and ended by reassuring public opinion on the dangers which threatened France from without by a luminous exposition of the critical state of Europe. Madame Roland, who was present, describes the solemnity of this meeting, "when they all, with inexpressible enthusiasm--kneeling on the ground and with drawn swords--renewed their oaths to live free or to die." And describing Brissot's extraordinary success, she exclaims: "At last I have seen the fire of liberty lit in my country; it cannot be quenched again.... I shall end my days when it pleases Nature. My last breath will still be a sigh of joy and hope for the generations to succeed us." The outcome of this meeting was a monster petition to demand the ddchfance, to be signed at the Champs de Mars on the following Sunday. In the brilliant sunshine of the 17th of July crowds of holiday-makers began to collect; and Madame Roland, who went there herself in the morning, bears witness to the peaceable demeanor of...
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