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THE NEW MEN AT THE WHEEL. It was on the first of October, 1791, that the new Legislative Assembly was to be inaugurated over France. King Louis XVI., captured with Queen Marie Antoinette and the roy…
GILBERT'S CANDIDATE. Dr. Gilbert had not seen the queen for six months, since he had let her know that he was informed by Cagliostro that she was deceiving him. He was therefore astonished to s…
POWERFUL, PERHAPS; HAPPY, NEVER. The Narbonne Ministry lasted three months. A speech of Vergniaud blasted it. On the news that the Empress of Russia had made a treaty with Turkey, and Austria and Pr…
THE FOES FACE TO FACE. While the queen was looking from the palace to see the Austrians coming, another was watching in her little reception-rooms. One was revolution embodied, the other its opponen…
THE UNINVITED VISITORS. All day long a man in general's uniform was riding about the St. Antoine suburb, on a large Flanders horse, shaking hands right and left, kissing the girls and treating …
"THE COUNTRY IS IN DANGER!" The king wrote to the Assembly to complain of the violation of his residence, and he issued a proclamation to "his people." So it appeared there were …
THE MEN FROM MARSEILLES. We have said that Barbaroux had written to a friend in the south to send him five hundred men willing to die. Who was the man who could write such lines? and what influence …
THE FRIEND IN NEED. The very thing encouraging the Tuileries party was what awed the rebels. The palace had become a formidable fortress, with a dreadful garrison. During the night of the fourth of …
CHARNY ON GUARD. On the night of the ninth of August, the royal family supped as usual; nothing could disturb the king in his meals. But while Princess Elizabeth and Lady Lamballe wept and prayed, t…
BILLET AND PITOU. On being called by the king, Petion had foreseen that he might more easily get into the palace than out, so he went up to a hard-faced man marred by a scar on the brow. "Farme…
