The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, Band 2Scribner and Welford, 1884 |
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Seite 297 - France," in the course of which he said : " I have been twice called to be counsel for him who was my master, in times when that duty was coveted by every one. I owe him the same service now that it is a duty which many people deem dangerous.
Seite 324 - He is, perhaps, the only prince who, having no other passion, had not that of power, and who united the two qualities which make good kings, fear of God and love of the people. He perished, the victim of passions which he did not share; of those of the persons about him, to which he was a stranger, and to those of the multitude, which he' had not excited. Few memories of kings are so commendable. History will say of him, that, with a little more strength of mind, he would have been an exemplary king.
Seite 336 - I have learned from the pleadings even of the trial that my daughter was separated from you. Alas ! poor child ! I dare not write to her ; she would not receive my letter : I do not even know if this will reach you.
Seite 304 - ... caused the blood of the people to be spilt, and above all, that the calamitous events of the 10th of August are attributed to me. " I confess that the multiplied proofs which I have given at all times of my love for the people, and the manner in which I have always conducted myself, ought in my opinion to demonstrate that I was not afraid to expose myself in order to prevent bloodshed, and to clear me for ever from such an imputation."* The president then asked Louis XVI.
Seite 311 - of the mother-duchess, the patroness of the bands of female Jacobins, whenever her ears were not loudly greeted with the welcome sounds of death. The upper gallery, reserved for the people, was during the whole trial constantly full of strangers of every description drinking wine as in a tavern.
Seite 239 - is not a coward; he possesses abundance of passive courage, but he is overwhelmed by an awkward shyness, a mistrust of himself, which proceeds from his education as much as from his disposition. He is afraid to command, and, above all things, dreads speaking to assembled numbers. He lived like a child, and always ill at ease under the eyes of Louis XV., until the age of twenty-one. This constraint confirmed his timidity. Circumstanced as we are, a few well-delivered words addressed to the Parisians,...
Seite 246 - The question of dethronement was discussed with a degree of frenzy in the Assembly. Such of the deputies as voted against it were abused, ill-treated, and surrounded by assassins. They had a battle to fight at every step they took ; and at length they did not dare to sleep in their own houses. Of this number were Regnault de Beaucaron, Froudiere, Girardin, and Vaublanc.. Girardin complained of having been struck in one of the lobbies of the Assembly. A voice cried out to him, ' Say where you were...
Seite 127 - She rose, opened the window, and appeared in the balcony ; immediately all these worthy people said to her, in an undertone : " Courage, Madame ; good Frenchmen suffer for you, and with you; they pray for you. Heaven will hear their prayers ; we love you, we respect you, we will continue to venerate our virtuous King.
Seite 337 - I experience in dying. Let them, at least, know that in my last moments I have thought of them. Adieu, my good and kind sister ! May this letter reach you ! Think of me always ! I embrace you with all my heart, as well as those poor and dear children. . . . My God, how heartrending it is to quit them for ever ! Adieu ! . . . Adieu ! . . . I ought no longer to occupy myself, but with my spiritual duties.
Seite 336 - I grieve bitterly at leaving my poor children ; you know that I existed but for them and you — you who have by your friendship sacrificed all to be with us. In what a position do I leave you ! I have learned, by the pleadings on my trial, that my daughter was separated from you.