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The Life and Letters of Madame Elisabeth de France, Sister of Louis XVI.
The Life and Letters of Madame Elisabeth de France Sister of Louis XVI Author:Elisabeth 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: CHAPTER III. Madame Elisabeth's Removal to the Conciergerie. — Her Examination, Condemnation, and Death.1 [THE only authentic records of Madame Elisabeth's... more » life from the day she entered the Tower of the Temple, August 13, 1792, to May 9, 1794, the day when she was torn from the arms of her young niece, are in the simple Narrative of that niece, Marie-Therese de France, and in the Journal of the Temple by Clery, Louis XVI.'s valet. These narratives could be, and have been rewritten and elaborated in tender words by loving hearts, but their plain simplicity is more befitting the sacred figure of this brave, self-forgetting, wise, and truly Christ-like woman. They are queens later. We take her now as she emerges from the Temple, for a last brief moment, into the sight and hearing of men.] On the 25th of November, 1793, the municipality of Paris addressed to the National Assembly the following petition: " Legislators " You have decreed Equality; source of public welfare; it is established on foundations henceforth immovable; nevertheless, it is violated, this Equality, and in the most revolting manner, by the vile remains of tyranny, by the prisoners in the Tower of the Temple. Could they still, those abominable remains, be of any account under present circumstances, it could be only from the interest the country hasin preventing them from rending her bosom, and renewing the atrocities committed by the two monsters who gave them birth. If, therefore, such is the sole interest of the Eepublic in respect to them, it is beneath her sole surveillance that they ought to be placed. We are no longer in those horrible days when a Liberticide faction (on whom the blade of the law has already done justice) assumed, as a means of vengeance against a patriotic Commune which it a...« less