The History of French Revolution. Taine Hippolyte

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СКАЧАТЬ On either side a formidable shape;

       The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair,

       but ended foul in many a scaly fold

       Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd

       With mortal sting: about her middle round

       A cry of hell hounds never ceasing bark'd

       With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung

       A hideous peal: yet, when they list, would creep,

       If aught disturb'd their noise, into her womb,

       And kennel there; yet there still bark'd and howl'd

       Within unseen …

      … . … .the other shape,

       If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none

       Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb,

       Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd

       For each seem'd either: black it stood as night,

       Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,

       And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head

       The likeness of a kingly crown had on.

       The monster moving onward came as fast,

       With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.

      1201 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," H. 1453. Letter of M. Miron, lieutenant de police, April 26th; of M. Joly de Fleury, procureur-général, May 29th; of MM. Marchais and Berthier, April 18th and 27th, March 23rd, April 5th, May 5th.—Arthur Young, June 10th and 29th. "Archives Nationales," H. 1453 Letter of the sub-delegate of Montlhéry, April 14th.]

      1202 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," H. 1453. Letter of the sub-delegate Gobert, March 17th; of the officers of police, June 15th:—" On the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of March the inhabitants of Conflans generally rebelled against the game law in relation to the rabbit."]

      1203 (return) [ Montjoie, 2nd part, ch. XXI. p.14 (the first week in June). Montjoie is a party man; but he gives dates and details, and his testimony, when it is confirmed elsewhere, deserves, to be admitted.]

      1204 (return) [ Montjoie, 1st part, 92–101.—"Archives Nationales," H. 1453. Letter of the officer of police of Saint-Denis: "A good many workmen arrive daily from Lorraine as well as from Champagne," which increases the prices.]

      1205 (return) [ De Bezenval, "Mémoires," I.353. Cf. "The Ancient Regime," p.509.—Marmontel, II, 252 and following pages.—De Ferrières, I. 407.]

      1206 (return) [ Arthur Young, September 1st, 1788]

      1207 (return) [ Barrère, "Mémoires," I. 234.]

      1208 (return) [ See, in the National Library, the long catalogue of those which have survived.]

      1209 (return) [ Malouet, I. 255. Bailly, I. 43 (May 9th and 19th).—D'Hezecques, "Souvenirs d'un page de Louis XV." 293.—De Bezenval, I. 368.]

      1210 (return) [ Marmontel, II, 249.—Montjoie, 1st part, p. 92.—De Bezenval, I. 387: "These spies added that persons were seen exciting the tumult and were distributing money."]

      1211 (return) [ "Archives Nationales," Y.11441. Interrogatory of the Abbé Roy, May 5th.—Y.11033, Interrogatory (April 28th and May 4th) of twenty-three wounded persons brought to the Hôtel-Dieu—These two documents are of prime importance in presenting the true aspect of the insurrection; to these must be added the narrative of M. de Bezenval, who was commandant at this time with M. de Châtelet. Almost all other narratives are amplified or falsified through party bias.]

      1212 (return) [ De Ferrières, vol. III. note A. (justificatory explanation by Réveillon).]

      1213 (return) [ Bailly I. 25 (April 26th).]

      1214 (return) [ Hippeau, IV. 377 (Letters of M. Perrot, April 29th).]

      1215 (return) [ Letter to the King by an inhabitant of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine—"Do not doubt, sire, that our recent misfortunes are due to the dearness of bread"]

      1216 (return) [ Dampmartin, "Evénements qui se sont passés sous mes yeux," etc. I. 25: "We turned back and were held up by small bands of scoundrels, who insolently proposed to us to shout 'Vive Necker! Vive le Tiers-Etat!'" His two companions were knights of St. Louis, and their badges seemed an object of "increasing hatred." "The badge excited coarse mutterings, even on the part of persons who appeared superior to the agitators."]

      1217 (return) [ Dampmartin, ibid. i. 25: "I was dining this very day at the Hôtel d'Ecquevilly, in the Rue Saint-Louis." He leaves the house on foot and witnesses the disturbance. "Fifteen to Sixteen hundred wretches, the excrement of the nation, degraded by shameful vices, covered with rags, and gorged with brandy, presented the most disgusting and revolting spectacle. More than a hundred thousand persons of both sexes and of all ages and conditions interfered greatly with the operations of the troops. The firing СКАЧАТЬ