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The French Revolution: The constitution (v. 2)
The French Revolution The constitution - v. 2 Author:Thomas Carlyle Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but then actual Bastille sandstone. M. le Marquis is one of D'Orleans's errand-men ; in National Assembly, and elsewhere. Madame, for her part, trains up a youth... more »ful D'Orleans generation in what superfinost morality one can; gives meanwhile rather enigmatic account of fair Mademoiselle Pamela, the Daughter whom she has adopted. Thus she, in Palais-Royal Saloon;—whither, we remark, D'Orleans himself, spite of Lafayette, has returned from that English ' mission" of his: surely no pleasant mission: for the English would not speak to him; and Saint Hannah More of England, so unlike Saint Sillery-Genlis of France, saw him shunned, in Vauxhall Gardens, like one peststruck,1 and his red-blue impassive visage waxing hardly a shade bluer. CHAPTER IV JOURNALISM As for Constitutionalism, with its National Guards, it is doing what it can; and has enough to do : it must, as ever, with one hand wave persuasively, repressing Patriotism ; and keep the other clenched to menace Royalist plotters. A most delicate task ; requiring tact. Thus, if People's-friend Marat has today his writ of 'prise de corps, or seizure of body,' served on him, and dives out of sight, tomorrow he is left at large ; or is even encouraged, as a sort of bandog whose baying may be useful. President Danton, in open Hall, with reverberating voice, declares that, in a case like Marat's, ' force may be resisted by force.' Whereupon the Chatelet serves Danton also with a writ;— which however, as the whole Cordeliers District responds to it, what Constable will be prompt to execute ? Twice more, on new occasions, does the Chatelet launch its writ; and twice more in vain : the body of Danton cannot be seized by 1 Hannah More's Lift and Ctmspendtntt, u. c. 5. Chatelet; he unseized, should he even fly for a season, shal...« less