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Seite 81 - 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.1 1 " I am convinced," says Bertrand de Molleville,
Seite 311 - Crois-moi , jeune et belle Ophélie , Quoi qu'en dise le monde , et malgré ton miroir, Contente d'être belle et de n'en rien savoir, Garde toujours ta modestie. Sur le pouvoir de tes appas Demeure toujours alarmée ; Tu n'en seras que mieux aimée , Si tu crains de ne l'être pas.
Seite 432 - Nothing, therefore, would be more valuable or interesting than any bond fide testimony of the actors in, or even the spectators of, those events — anything that should convey to us the contemporaneous feelings and impressions of men's minds, and in any degree explain how such a state of national insanity could have lasted a week, and how social and domestic life was carried on amidst those scenes of anarchy and death. With this feeling we opened the works whose titles we have placed at the head...
Seite 86 - ... to the royal dignity, which expects to find servants in all classes of persons, beginning even with the brothers and sisters of the monarch. Speaking here of etiquette, I do not allude to majestic state, appointed for days of ceremony in all Courts. I mean those minute ceremonies that were pursued...
Seite 277 - For more than a year he had no change of shirt or stockings ; every kind of filth was allowed to accumulate about him, and in his room ; and during all that period nothing of that kind had been removed. His window, which was locked as well as grated, was never opened, and the infectious smell of that horrid room was so dreadful that no one could bear it for a moment.
Seite 86 - ... usage altogether ; she also freed herself from the necessity of being followed, in the palace of Versailles, by two of her women in court dresses, during those hours of the day, when the ladies in waiting were not with her. From that time she was accompanied only by a single valet de chambre, and two footmen. All the errors of Marie Antoinette were of the same description with those which I have just detailed. A disposition gradually to substitute the simple manners of private life for those...
Seite 569 - After the accession of Louis Philippe, for whom the guillotine must have been an object of the most painful contemplation, sentences of death were also very rare, and certainly never executed where there was any possible room for mercy. The executions, too, when forced upon him, took place at early hours and in remote and uncertain places; and every humane art was used to cover the operations of the fatal instrument with a modest veil, not only from motives of general decency and humanity, but also,...
Seite 94 - Memoirs' conceal truths well known to her, though such as would have been unbecoming a lady to reveal. She was in fact, the confidante of Marie Antoinette's amours. These amours were not numerous, scandalous, or degrading, but they were amours. Madame Campan, who lived beyond the Restoration, was not so mysterious in conversation on these subjects as she was in her writings. She acknowledged to persons who have acknowledged it to me, that she was privy to the intercourse between the Queen and the...
Seite 567 - Thermidor there was, about half- past three in the afternoon, just as this last batch of victims was about to leave the Conciergerie, a considerable commotion in the town, caused by the revolt against Robespierre. At that moment Fouquier, on his way to dine with a neighbour, passed through the court where the prisoners were ascending the fatal carts. Sanson, whose duty it was to conduct the prisoners to execution, ventured to stop the Accusateur Public, to represent to him that there were some rumours...
Seite 154 - D'Avaray would not permit such rashness, and I did not persist in my intention. The clothes fitted me very well, but the wig was a little too tight; however, as it fitted tolerably, and as I was resolved, whenever I could, to keep a large round hat with a great tri-coloured cockade over my eyes, the ill-fitting of the wig did not give us much trouble. In crossing the private apartments, D'Avaray told me that there was a carriage like our own waiting in the great court of the "Luxembourg; this made...