The French Revolution (Volume 4 ); A Political History, 1789-1804. Translated from the French of the 3D Ed (Paperback)

Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1910 edition. Auszug: ...Hannibal, Scipio, Brutus, Cicero, Cassar, Turenne, Cond, Washington, Constituents, ex-Legislatives, ex-Conventionals of the Gironde or the Plain. At the outset many were inclined to assume the attitude of " representatives on mission"; to issue proclamations and publish journals; they were quickly reminded of the modesty of their functions as subordinate agents, and rendered a devoted obedience. 1 The law of the 3rd of Nivose of the year VIII had appropriated to the various constituted authorities the following national buildings: 1. The Palais de Luxembourg to the Conservative Senate. 2. The Tuileries to the Consuls (Bonaparte lived in the apartments of Louis XVI; Le Brun had the Pavilion de Flore; Cambaceres the Hotel d'Elbeuf). 3. The Palais du Cinq-Cents (Palais Bourbon) to the Legislative Corps. 4. The Palais d'Egalite (Palais-Rcyal) to the Tribunate. Thibaudeau says the ceremony of installation in the Tuileries was still of a character of republican simplicity. Mme. de Stael, on the contrary, was struck by the regal air of Bonaparte and the servility of those about him. Frederick the Great, Mirabeau, Marceau, &cl He preserved a part of the republican etiquette, and no title was employed but that of citizen.2 Upon the news of Washington's death he issued an order of the day (on the 18th of Pluviose of the year VIII) ordaining mourning in the name of the ideas of Liberty and Equality. But beside these republican customs new manners began to appear; or rather it was that manners of the old school began timidly to reappear. The Opera balls, forbidden since 1790, were reopened; men disguised themselves as monks, parliamentary counsellors, &c, as much in reaction as in a spirit of..."