Speeches of M. de Mirabeau, the Elder, Pronounced in the National Assembly of France; To Which Is Prfixed, a Sketch of His Life and Character (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ... Versailles was filled with foreign soldiery. Two deputations had been sent to the king to reiterate the request for the dismission of the troops, whose mere presence was the cause of all the insurrections. Both the king's answers were in the negative. On the 15th, the assembly, which had been sitting, since the morning of the 13th, determined upon sending a third de putation to the king. It was on the point of setting out. M. DEMIRABEAU. c TELL him that the foreign hordes by which we are besieged, received a visit yesterday from the princes, the princesses, the favourites, male and female; and their caresses, and their exhortations and and their presents; tell him that, the whole night, those foreign satellites, gorged with gold and wine, were predicting in their impious camps the slavery of France, and that their brutal vows were directed to the destruction of the National Assembly; tell him that, in his very palace, the courtiers danced to that barbarous music, and that such was once the prologue to the tragedy of Saint Bartholomew . "Tell him that that Henry whose memory the world adores, the man of all his ancestors whom he Would set up as his mo del, let provisions pass into Paris then in actual rebellion, which he was besieging in person; and that the inhuman counsel The queen, M. d'Artois, Mad. de Polignac, &c. had been in the evening to visit the hussars quai tered in the Orangery. f L'avant scene dc la St. Barthelemy. I lors lors of his present majesty repulse the supplies of grain which commerce is carrying to his faithful and famishing capital The deputation did not set out; the king came himself to give notice that he had just ordered the troops to remove from Paris and Versailles July 16. Tranquillity was re-established. The deputation which, ...