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The Last Days of the French Monarchy (Classic Reprint)
The Last Days of the French Monarchy - Classic Reprint Author:Hilaire Belloc THE LAST DAYS OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY PART ONE THE ROYAL SEANCE UPON the crest of the steep and thickly wooded hills that rise from the left bank of the Seine below Paris, you may find a village, the old stones of which, and something spacious in its whole arrangement, are consonant with its name. It is called " Marly of the King." There the grea... more »t trees, the balustrade, and gates still standing recall the palace to which the French monarchy retired when leisure or fatigue or mourning withdrew it from Versailles ; for it was a place more domestic and far less burdened with state. To the gates of that great country house there came near ten o'clock, just after the hour when full darkness falls on a midsummer evening, a great coach, driving from Versailles. It was the coach of the Archbishop of Paris, coming urgently to see
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; Part I; page; The Royal Seance 15; Part II; Introduction 49; The Flight to Varennes 53; Part III; Introduction 87; The Storming of the Tuileries 91; Part IV; Introduction 117; The Role of Lafayette 119; Part V; Introduction 169; Under the Mill of Valmy 171; Part VI; Introduction 197; The Death of Louis XVI 199
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