Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France and Navarre: Including Several Important Periods of the French Revolution, from Its Origin to the 16th of October, 1793, the Day of Her Majesty's Martyrdom, with a Narrative of the Trial and Martyrdom of Madame Elizabeth, the Poisoning of Louis XVII in the Temple, the Liberation of Madame Royale, Daughter of Louis XVI, and Various Subsequent Events, Volumen1C. Rickaby and sold by the author, 1805 |
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... Archbishop of Paris : and it was found necessary to hold a Bed of Justice , in which the King enjoined the Bishops ... Toulouse , and the Marquis Dumesnil by the Parliament of Grenoble , to be arrested ; and the Duke d'Aiguil- lon ...
... Archbishop of Paris : and it was found necessary to hold a Bed of Justice , in which the King enjoined the Bishops ... Toulouse , and the Marquis Dumesnil by the Parliament of Grenoble , to be arrested ; and the Duke d'Aiguil- lon ...
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... Archbishop of Toulouse secretly contemplated ; and M. de Calonne only mistook in attributing to the whole body of the clergy the disposition that really actuated some of its members , with respect to him . The pre- late with a sneer ...
... Archbishop of Toulouse secretly contemplated ; and M. de Calonne only mistook in attributing to the whole body of the clergy the disposition that really actuated some of its members , with respect to him . The pre- late with a sneer ...
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... Archbishop of Toulouse , who had a plan of his own , independent of that in which he joined with his Order , spoke a great deal in the committees of the clergy , very little in the assembly of the Notables , urged on his colleagues ...
... Archbishop of Toulouse , who had a plan of his own , independent of that in which he joined with his Order , spoke a great deal in the committees of the clergy , very little in the assembly of the Notables , urged on his colleagues ...
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... Archbishop of Toulouse now gave a more de- cided tone to the notes he drew up for the King . At the very time that Calonne was giving him- self credit for depriving Miromesnil of the seals , he received a message from his Majesty ...
... Archbishop of Toulouse now gave a more de- cided tone to the notes he drew up for the King . At the very time that Calonne was giving him- self credit for depriving Miromesnil of the seals , he received a message from his Majesty ...
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... Archbishops and Bishops for the readiness with which they had declared that they claimed no exemption from the ... Archbishop of Toulouse , shop Bri- The Abbé Vermont had formerly been indebted nister , to this prelate for being ...
... Archbishops and Bishops for the readiness with which they had declared that they claimed no exemption from the ... Archbishop of Toulouse , shop Bri- The Abbé Vermont had formerly been indebted nister , to this prelate for being ...
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Abbé Abbé Terray administration admiration ANTOINETTA appeared Archbishop Archbishop of Narbonne Archbishop of Toulouse arret assembly Baron de Breteuil Bed of Justice beneficence Bretagne called Calonne cause Chamber Clergy Commandant conduct convocation Council counsellor Count Dauphin declared Deputies Duke D'Aiguillon Duke de Choiseul Duke of Orléans edicts expression favour finances France French friends gave give Government happy heard heart honour King King's kingdom lettres de cachet livres Louis XVI Madame magistracy Magistrates Majesty manner Mareschal MARIA MARIA-ANTOINETTA Maria-Theresa Marquis ment millions mind Monarch mother nation nature Necker never Nobility noble Notables opinion Palace Palais Parlia Parliament of Paris passions persons Plenary Court Polignac possessed present Prime Minister Prince Princess principle province Queen received registered reign remonstrances respect Revolution Royal sent sitting Sovereign States-General taxes thing thought throne Tiers-Etat tion took tranquillity Versailles virtues whole wish words
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Página 100 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 99 - France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. Oh! what a revolution! and what an heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall!
Página 100 - ... and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Página 100 - ... the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
Página 100 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Página 99 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 100 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified, obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 423 - Ac, veluti magno in populo cum s<cpe coorta est Seditio, saevitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant; furor arma ministrat; Turn, pietate gravem, ac meritis si forte virum quern Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant: Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet: Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam Prospiciens genitor, creloque invectus aperto, Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.
Página 135 - Ere thou go, Give up thy staff': Henry will to himself Protector be ; and God shall be my hope, My stay, my guide, and lanthorn to my feet. And go in peace, Humphrey ; no less belov'd Than when thou wert Protector to thy King.