History of the French RevolutionVickers, 1845 |
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10th of August accused agitation arms army arrest assembly assignats attack Austrians authority Barbaroux battalions called camp charged citizens clergy command commissioners committee of public commune constitution convention Cordeliers council courage court Custine danger Danton declared decree defended demanded departments deputies Duke Duke of Orleans Dumouriez emigrants endeavoured enemy excited exclaimed execution favour Feuillants force formed France French gave Girondists immediately insurrection Jacobins king La Vendée Lafayette lastly liberty Louis XVI Marat measures ment Mentz midst minister Mirabeau Mountainists municipality national guard Necker Niort occupied opinion Orleans palace Paris party passed patriots Petion popular present prince prisoners proposed Prussians public safety queen received reign replied republic republican revolution revolutionary revolutionary tribunal Rhine Robespierre Roland royal Sainte-Menehould Saumur sections sent side soldiers soon taken third estate thought thousand tion took tribunal troops Valenciennes Vendeans Vendée Vergniaud vote wished
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Page 97 - ... of the constituted authorities — their disorganizing maxims to the true principles of liberty — their delirious fury to the calm and constant courage of a nation which knows its rights, and...
Page 215 - Six hundred and eighty-three members declared Louis XVI. guilty without explanation. The assembly consisted of seven hundred and forty-nine members. The president, in the name of the National Convention, declared Louis Capet guilty of conspiracy against the liberty of the nation, and of attempts against the general safety of the state.
Page 45 - We swear to be faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king ; and to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen, by the indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Page 16 - Go, say to those who sent you that we are here by the power of the people, and that we will not be driven hence, save by the power of the bayonet.
Page 88 - Assembly, deliberating on the formal proposition of the king, considering that the court of Vienna, in contempt of treaties, has continued to grant an open protection to the French rebels ; that it has excited and formed a concert with several powers of Europe against the independence and security of the French nation...
Page 79 - if the French, driven from their country by the revocation of the edict of Nantes, had assembled in arms on the frontiers, if they had been protected by the princes of Germany, Sire, we ask you, what would have been the conduct of Louis XIV.
Page 122 - Paris, the justices of the peace, and all others whom it shall concern; their said majesties declaring, moreover, on their faith and word, as emperor and king, that if the palace of the Tuileries is forced or insulted, that if the least violence, the least outrage, is offered to their majesties the King and Queen, and to the royal family, if...
Page 383 - Atheism is aristocratic. The idea of a great Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people.
Page 122 - That the inhabitants of towns, bourgs, and villages, who shall dare to defend themselves against the troops of their imperial and royal majesties, and to...
Page 122 - ... against the troops of the two allied courts, and who shall be taken with arms in their hands, shall be treated as enemies, and punished as rebels to their king, and as disturbers . of the public peace.