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A View of the Causes and Progress of the French Revolution (1)
A View of the Causes and Progress of the French Revolution - 1 Author:John Moore Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1795 Original Publisher: printed for G.G. and J. Robinson Subjects: France History / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books editio... more »n of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. Exhibition in the Street -- M. Necker -- Political -Pamphlets -- Opinions refpefting the Number of Deputies of the T'iers-Etat -- Search for Precedents -- Second AJfembly of the Notables -- French Parliaments -- The Notables give their Opinion -- -The States Genera! are conftituted on a different Plan-" Minifter s Motives for this. THE hatred of the Parifmns to their late Minifter, and their joy at his difgrace, appeared by certain exhibitions in the ftreets of Paris, which are characteriftic of a French mob. Some of thefe fcenes were of a ludicrous nature, and fbme faintly typify the wanton and atrocious tranfac- tions on the fame theatre at fubfequent periods. 5 A number A number of idle people, having drefled the ftuffed figure of a man in the robes of an Archbifhop, carried it through the ftreets in proceffion to the place of execution, where it was to be publicly burnt; and fome of the mob perceiving an ecclefiaftic among the fpedators, laid hold of him, called him Abbe Vermon and Father Con- fefTor to the Archbifhop, and having obliged him to mimic the ceremony of con- feffing a condemned criminal, they threw the effigy of the Minifter into the flames. . When the populace were preparing to repeat this piece of mummery the next day, the military were ordered to interfere: the confequence was, that feyeral people were killed and more wounded. Every incident that tended to irritate the minds of the people againft the executive power was particularly unfortunate at this time, whe...« less