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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylv... .................................................................. 274 6 The French Revolution - V olume Three THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS... ...ealities that he rests. “Legislators!” so speaks the stentor-voice, as the Newspapers yet preserve it for us, “it is not the alarm-cannon that you he... .... In the year 1789, Constituent Deputy Barrere ‘wept,’ in his Break-of-Day Newspaper, at sight of a reconciled King Louis; and now in 1792, Conven- ti... ...aitors, and unmasking them,”—by my superior originality of mind? (Moniteur Newspaper, Nos. 271, 280, 294, Annee premiere; Moore’s Journal, ii. 21, 157... ...ary to live (faut vivre). (See Deux Amis, xv. 189-192; Memoires de Genlis; Founders of the French Re- public, &c. &c.)—Higher than all Frenchmen the d...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...................................................................

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ... that from of old tempered Despotism, we need not speak. Nor of Manuscript Newspapers (Nouvelles a la main) do we speak. Bachaumont and his jour- neym... ...ich nevertheless was widely believed in those days. (Marat, Ami- du-Peuple Newspaper (in Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 103), &c.) But indeed, if Achille... ...ker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic (London, 1798), para Valadi.) De Morande fr... ...th Marquis Condorcet, and Claviere the Genevese ‘have created the Moniteur Newspaper,’ or are about creating it. Able Editors must give account of suc... ...ry to live (faut vivre). (See Deux Amis, xv. 189- 192; Memoires de Genlis; Founders of the French Republic, &c. &c.)—Higher than all Frenchmen the dom...

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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ... answer, I am bound to sup- pose that there never was any thing in a daily newspaper; and, therefore, that the horrible burden of misery and of change... ...as caused angels to weep and tremble. Meantime, when I come to look at the newspaper with my own eyes, I am astonished at the misreport of my informan... ...tains of domestic life, close behind us, and before us, and all around us. Newspapers are evanescent, and are too rapidly recurrent, and people see no... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ... casual that did not enter into the original or normal concep- tion of the founders, and that may therefore have been due to alien suggestion. But now...

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...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ...dining at Flicoteaux’s, he went down to the Passage du Commerce to see the newspapers at Blosse’s reading-room, as well as new books and magazines and... ...women who gave him so much pleasure were surely marvelous beings, whom the newspapers treated with as much gravity as matters of national interest. To... ...’s garret, he had made some study of the jokes and articles in the smaller newspapers. He was at least the equal, he felt, of the wittiest contributor... ...of the Bourbons, for you are writing for a Right Cen- tre paper. “Scoff at Founders of Systems. And cry with a glow of fine enthusiasm, ‘Here are erro...

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...ngement and those the dimensions intended by the original archi- tects and founders of Washington; but the inhabitants have hitherto confined themselv... ...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...t Mr. Seward would find any other line of conduct very in- convenient. The newspapers, one after another, came round. That, under all these circumstan... ...overn- ment behaved well in the matter, no one, I think, can deny; but the newspapers, taken as a whole, were not very consistent, and, I think, not v... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...d that he is going seven or eight hundred miles. He is supplied with fresh newspapers three or four times a day as he passes by the towns at which the... ...nce, which must have much aided Mark Tapley in his endeavors. Who were the founders of Cairo I have never ascertained. They are probably buried fathom... ... They have trusted with almost childlike confidence to the wisdom of their founders, 226 North America V ol. 2 and have said to their rulers—”There! ...

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...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ...he society with Madame de la Baudraye; he proposed to figure as one of the founders, and to let the house for fifteen years to the literary club. By t... ...and some masked balls during the Carnival. As to literature—there were the newspapers. Politics and business were discussed. Monsieur de la Baudraye w... ...nymous fame. Though a mixture of verse and prose is a monstrous anomaly in French literature, there must be exceptions to the rule. This tale will be ... ...tain num- ber of copies, Dinah still had seven or eight, wrapped up in the newspapers which had published notices of the work. T wenty copies forwarde... ...ities.” Horace Bianchon looked at Etienne Lousteau, as much as to say that newspaper epigrams and the satire of the “funny column” were incomprehensib...

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... “pub- lic heart” to care nothing about it. A leading Douglas Demo- cratic newspaper thinks Douglas’s superior talent will be needed to resist the rev... ...p to inquire, when they fired a broadside, whether it hit an Englishman, a French- man, or a Turk. Nor will I stop to inquire, nor shall I hesitate, w... ...nistration men and we are allied, and we stand in the attitude of English, French, and Turk, he occupying the position of the Russian, in that case I ... ... ultimate extinction, I only mean to say that they will place it where the founders of this government originally placed it. I have said a hundred tim... ...t all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe, German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian,—men that have come from Europe themselves, or who... ...his ques- tion. Does the Judge claim that he is working on the plan of the founders of government? I think he says in some of his speeches indeed, I h... ... ing a charge of falsehood against me. He used, as I found it printed in a newspaper, which, I remember, was very nearly like the real speech, the fol... ...another topic to which I desire to allude. I seldom refer to the course of newspapers, or notice the articles which they publish in regard to myself; ... ... I say when this government was first established it was the policy of its founders to prohibit the spread of slavery into the new Territories of the ...

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... word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea of a fall, and the plea of a shock... ...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ... been his unhap- piest ventures. He had relied and reposed on the dicta of newspaper critics; who are sometimes unanimous, and are then taken for guid... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ... or the circuitous explanation of matters touching sex in here and there a newspaper, harder to repress completely than sewer- gas in great cities: an... ... born to bleat prostrate, like sheep on their backs in a ditch; Trusts and Founders; Breweries bursting vats upon the markets, and England prone along... ... a maternal Old England let them down. Projectors of Companies, Directors, Founders; Railway mag- nates, actual kings and nobles (though one cannot ye...

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...collections for after days— and creates so many new sources of interest (a newspaper letter from Beyrout, or Malta, or Algiers, has twice the interest... ...ooms were as clean as scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finish... ...fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies, dressed smartly in the French fashion, with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn l... ...y choose his trade,” our little informant said, who addressed us in better French than any of our party spoke, whose manners were perfectly gentlemanl... ...urt this day three weeks, and whose common read- ing is law reports or the newspaper, to pretend to fall in love for the long vacation with mere poetr... ...lar feeling; both of which, I suspect, are uncommon in our busy commercial newspaper-reading coun- try. Men only say they are enthusiastic about the G... ...n- der the sun almost as fresh as it must have appeared to the eyes of its founders; I saw nothing more charming and brilliant, more graceful, festive... ...resque aspect seems to correspond better with one’s notions of their proud founders. The towers and gates are warlike and strong, but beautiful and ar...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...d at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Provi- dence in 1640, began in like manner by drawing up a soci... ...ruction.* *At this time Alexander Hamilton, who was one of the prin- cipal founders of the Constitution, ventured to express the following sentiments ... ...ratic propensities, which were invariably and courageously resisted by the founders of the Union. In the States the executive power is vested in the h... ...t dared to propose any restrictions to the liberty of the press. The first newspaper over which I cast my eyes, upon my arrival in America, con- taine... ...a most prosperous condition. A single glance upon a French and an American newspaper is sufficient to show the difference which exists between the two... ...ngland. The consequence of this is that nothing is easier than to set up a newspaper, and a small number of readers suffices to defray the expenses of...

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...He has talked not unfrequently, and heard very much about the wills of old founders and the incomes arising from their estates, during the last year o... ...hurls his anathemas against time-honoured practices with the violence of a French Jacobin. No wonder that Dr Grantly should regard Bold as a firebrand... ...y wise. The warden continued his walk; the hard and stinging words of that newspaper article, each one of which had thrust a thorn as it were into his... ...ut the hospital, and what they are doing up in London, and what that cruel newspaper has said; but if there be such cause for sorrow, let us be sorrow... ...ie. I am sure, Mr Bold, it was not you who wrote those cruel things in the newspaper—’ John Bold eagerly protested that it was not, but his heart smot...

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...r could not know; what was sufficient for her was that he had rallied, as the French say, had accepted the accomplished fact, had admitted that North a... ... consisted mainly of the vision of plenty of cigars and brandy and water and newspapers, and a cane bottomed arm chair of the right inclination, from ... ...table or two with a discoloured marble top, a few books, and a collection of newspapers piled up in corners. Ransom could see for himself that the occ... ...enlightened by his observation in New York of some of the sources from which newspapers are fed, was immediately touched by the conviction that he per... ...st the only foreign author she cared about; for she hated the writing of the French, in spite of the importance they have given to women. Such a visio... ...some oriental idea; it has lately been introduced in Paris. She doesn’t like French ideas as a general thing; Chapter 13 79 but she says this has mor... ... cooks it isn’t bad. Mrs. Burrage is one of the principal members—one of the founders, I believe; and when her turn has come round, formerly—it comes ...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...Lemprun was the victim of a daring robbery which made a great noise in the newspapers of the day , though it was quickly forgotten during the events o... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ... actually made for Minard, whose talk was a paraphrase on the ideas of his newspaper. Julien Minard, the young lawyer, suffered from his father as muc... ...ate called Les Canquoelles. He finally obtained a place on a min- isterial newspaper, the manager of which was the famous Cerizet, so celebrated for t... ...prosperous journal.” “On the contrary, it happens to be quite natural. The founders, who were all representatives of the great leather interest, start...

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... prong all those who have not the right of the entree. They say the honest newspaper-fellow who sits in the hall and takes down the names of the great... ...iant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the French Embassy, where no party was considered to be complete without the pr... ... de- clared, according to the wont of their nation (for who ever yet met a Frenchman, come out of England, that has not left half a dozen families mis... ...ul, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, ... ...e him dinners and lent him a little money some- times, and whose election, newspaper, and other jobs Wagg did, gave the luckless fellow such a savage ... ... awaiting his judicious selection. And by the sermon-book was the Observer newspaper, damp and neatly folded, and for Sir Pitt’s own private use. His ... ...(may the blessings of all Englishmen who have ever been abroad rest on the founders and proprietors of that piratical print! ) and whether he woke or ...

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...he matron told it, and, with sundry nods and motions of her forefinger, pointed out the woman in question. The elder of this pair, ninety-three, seate... ...e the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and wi... ...ropolitan gales always blow so hard at Walworth. I cannot imagine what Walworth has done, to bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail ... ...ease to observe, expected. I have said, I am hungry; perhaps I might say, with greater point and force, that I am to some extent exhausted, and that I... ...ry orchards, apple orchards, corn-fields, and hop-gardens; so went I, by Canterbury to Dover. There, the sea was tumbling in, with deep sounds, after ... ...e got by far the worst—all in the usual intolerable manner. But, when I was clear of the Custom House on the other side, and when I began to make the ... ...f the openings in its spire. Gigantic in the basin just beyond the church, looms my Emigrant Ship: her name, the Amazon. Her figure-head is not disfig...

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...o come in, Miss Sharp ad- vanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, “Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes a... ...iselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux.” Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing u... ...ve been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talki... ... raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousands of subscrib- ers; when one day brought you ... ...nt. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. Such a Corsi... ...oved by the great events that were going on. The great events rendered the newspapers rather interesting, to be sure, and Briggs read out the Gazette,... ...(may the blessings of all Englishmen who have ever been abroad rest on the founders and proprietors of that piratical print! ) and whether he woke or ...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ... the fruit of four years’ study and toil. He has served as ap- prentice to founders, metal-casters, and goldsmiths.—There he has paid away thousands a... ...me to dinner, you would not have seen me at all.” The Baroness took up the newspaper, looked down the list of theatres, and laid it down again when sh... ... queen of cities. And indeed these chill ruins, among which the Legitimist newspaper contracted the disease it is dying of—the abominable hovels of th... ...uently is the case. Count Wenceslas Steinbock was written about in all the newspapers and reviews without his having the least suspicion of it, any mo...

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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ... years—and will go on. The chance reading of a book or of a paragraph in a newspaper can start a man on a new track and make him renounce his old asso... ... question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. “General, who p... ...illages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier des per... ...or in time their names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and th...

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...othing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful London murderer. Meantime, this ... ...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...s waistcoat, and glued by gore to the lining of its pockets, was found the French knife. Next, it was matter of notoriety to everybody in the inn, tha... ...cathe- dral: he will ‘Pursue the triumph and partake the gale,’ whilst the founders and benefactors of the Minster are prac- tically forgotten. These ... .... There went No. 5. Him succeeded a droller fellow than any of the rest. A French book-seller had caused a prose French translation to 77 Thomas de Q... ...g, to draw after him trains of sycophants; and it is the evil necessity of newspapers the most independent, that they must swell the mob of sycophants... ...oks upon as accidental and unessential: but in the great enemies, or great founders of the Romish temporal power, and in the history of their actions ... ...ishment and furniture of a great city as police-offices, lamp-lighting, or newspapers. Waiving however this one instance of something like compliance ...

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...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ... good ideas. My grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in ... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...loyed came trailing in procession through the winter-grey streets, now the newspaper placards outside news-shops told of battles in strange places, no... ...e so. We were 56 The New Machiavelli left absolutely to the hints of the newspapers, to casual po- litical speeches, to the cartoons of the comic pa... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ... throwing religious organisations out of employment or superseding all the newspapers by freely distributed bulletins. We could contemplate the possib...