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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylv... .................................................................. 274 6 The French Revolution - V olume Three THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS... ... Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowi... ...V olume Three horrid sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, th... ...ins is the greatest that Fouquier has yet had to do. Twenty-two, all chief Republicans, ranged in a line there; the most eloquent in France; Lawyers t... ...ve thousand. They are Ci-devants, Royalists; in far greater part, they are Republicans, of various Girondin, Fayettish, Un-Jacobin colour. Perhaps no ... ...s Paris. Not Ci-devants now; they, the noisy of them, are mown down; it is Republicans now. Chained two and two they march; in exasperated moments, si... ...ing now whither they were wont to send!—The Hundred and thirty-two Nantese Republicans, whom we saw marching in irons, have arrived; shrunk to Ninety-...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas... ...s of law were reorganized he had been set aside; Napoleon’s aver- sion for Republicans was apt to reappear in the smallest ap- pointments under his go...

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...y which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun fai...

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... of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between... ...Empire was just dawning. Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no con- ception of the vast spaces which public ... ... fully as we are to the Revolution; or else, we must upset the idol of the French people and their future emperor, and seat the true throne upon his r... ...on- orable gentlemen on whose brow God Himself has written the word mites,—Frenchmen who burrowed in their coun- 46 An Historical Mystery try homes a... ...idered it fortunate that Bonaparte escaped that danger, believing that the republicans had instigated it. But Laurence wept with rage when she heard h... ... be arrested. The First Consul likes the ci-devants, and cannot endure the republicans—simple enough; if he wants a throne he must needs strangle Libe... ...asty of Bonaparte to the throne and nomi- nated Napoleon as Emperor of the French, was submitted to the French people for acceptance Monsieur d’Hautes... ...bons against the Bonapartists, which in our day are re- peated against the republicans and the legitimists by the Younger Branch, flourished in the sp... ...ht about which led him to warn Napoleon, who held a contrary opinion, that republicans were more concerned than royalists in the various conspiracies....

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...he right of a people to make their own constitution— upon which he and the Republicans have never differed. The several points of the Dred Scott decis... ...hose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hun- dred thousand strong.... ...p to inquire, when they fired a broadside, whether it hit an Englishman, a French- man, or a Turk. Nor will I stop to inquire, nor shall I hesitate, w... ...nistration men and we are allied, and we stand in the attitude of English, French, and Turk, he occupying the position of the Russian, in that case I ... ... is an alliance, I confess I am in; but if it is meant to be said that the Republicans had formed an alliance going be- yond that, by which there is c... ... could not deny it, even if I wanted to. But I do not wish to; for all the Republicans in the nation opposed it, and they would have opposed it just a... ...he other Democrats that went with him, he furnished three votes; while the Republicans furnished twenty. That is what he did to defeat it. In the Hous... ...t all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe, German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian,—men that have come from Europe themselves, or who... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three be dished up in as many varieties as a French cook can pro- duce soups from potatoes. Now, as this is so great a s...

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...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ... thought out the Bloch problem. There was also a translation of Bloch into French. In En- glish a portion of his book was translated for the general r... ...orthless and impracticable. But it is manifest now that if the Belgian and French fron- tiers had been properly prepared—as they should have been prep... ... is nothing to reciprocate the sympathy and pride that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise that th... ...or the States. Few Americans realise that there are such beings as English republicans. What has linked Americans with the British hitherto has been v... ... casting off of a Germanic monarchy; it is its cardinal idea. These sturdy Republicans did not fling out the Hanoverians and their Hessian troops to p...

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... which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on t... ...of ours, with eighty vessels and twelve thousand men. And he came from the French coast between Calais and Boulogne, ‘because thence was the shortest ... ...om, I dare say, he made the same complaint as Napoleon Bonaparte the great French General did, eigh teen hundred years afterwards, when he said they ... ...s head to England. What Harold was doing at sea, when he was driven on the French coast by a tempest, is not at all certain; nor does it at all matter... ...ation. One of the bishops who performed the ceremony asked the Normans, in French, if they would have Duke William for their king? They answered Yes. ... ...sts (who called themselves Fifth Monarchy Men), and among the disappointed Republicans. He had a diffi cult game to play, for the Royalists were alwa... ...ut not until there had been very serious plots between the Royal ists and Republicans, and an actual rising of them in England, when they burst into ...

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...s corroborated by a despatch from General King at Fredericksburg, saying a Frenchman, just arrived from Richmond by way of Gordonsville, met 10,000 to... ...ts from Rich- mond to Jackson could be in Gordonsville, as reported by the Frenchman and your deserters. Have not all been sent to de- ceive? A. LINCO... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ... ol Six reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left, Republicans or others not even yourself. For be assured, my dear sir, there... ...ng their faith with their blood, Baker and Lyon and Bohien and Richardson, Republicans, did all that men could do; but did they any more than Kearny a... ...any more than Kearny and Stevens and Reno and Mansfield, none of whom were Republicans, and some at least of whom have been bitterly and repeatedly de... ...he coast of Cuba between the United States war steamer San Jacinto and the French brig Jules et Marie, resulting in serious damage to the latter. The ... ...in this, the subject was referred to a commission of the United States and French naval officers at New Y ork, with a naval officer of Italy as an arb... ...INCOLN. 338 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL FRENCH. [Cipher] W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., July 5, 1863. MAJOR-G...

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...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ...ometimes quite ferocious towards grass and flow- ers. One of the tenderest republicans of those days was heard to assert that the best of human beings... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co... ...el to bring you myself a little fortune; but the union of Holland with the French Empire caused the vessel to be taken by the English and sent to Jama... ...reover, which proved that these odi- ous enemies of the government and the French Empire were in the secret of the coalition of 1809 through com- muni... ...alier du Vissard, a young man something like the Fergus of Walter Scott, a French Jacobite. He developed the romance of an ardent young girl grossly d...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...runelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining... ...he Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part of Alice. This little pantomime did not ... ...ater was a dead man. Such men are the glory of the party they support. T o Republicans, the Marshal was the ideal of patriotism; and they all attended...

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ................................................................. 547 12 The French Revolution THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE VOLUME ... ...the flock knows it, and heeds it not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the sh... ...stitution whatsoever. Nay Departmental Deputies have come, the venerablest Republicans of each Department, with solemn message of Acceptance; and now ... ...ins is the greatest that Fouquier has yet had to do. Twenty-two, all chief Republicans, ranged in a line there; the most eloquent in France; Lawyers t... ... Rue Saint-Honore, as these continual Tumbrils pass, begin to look gloomy? Republicans too have bowels. The Guillotine is shifted, then again shifted;... ...arlyle sand. They are Ci-devants, Royalists; in far greater part, they are Republicans, of various Girondin, Fayettish, Un-Jacobin colour. Perhaps no ...

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...ipalities, to whom belongs the title of highness. The disdain shown by the French nobility for the title of prince, and the reasons which caused Louis... ...caused Louis XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes... ... a greater than he. Be careful not to think him one of those narrow-minded republicans who would like to re- store the Convention and the amenities of... ...ose of conquest, which formerly feudalized it. From this point of view the republicans came nearest to his idea. That is why he lent 23 Balzac them h... ...uld not have loved me long,” said the prin- cess, shaking her head sadly. “Republicans are more absolute in their ideas than we absolutists, whose fau...

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...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...any sideboard orna- mented with inverted glasses and old cruet-stands. The Frenchman had come to the house for shelter and food, and had been asked wh... ... habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fate tells against those of our country. From which remarks I w... ... by the general tenor of my book. The American and the Englishman are both republicans. The governments of the States and of England are probably the ... ... very many such Americans. 230 North America V ol. 1 They call themselves republicans, and sneer at the idea of a limited monarchy, but they declare ... ...d as a minister, even by one of his own party. The Radical or Abolitionist Republicans all abused him. The Conservative or Anti-abolition Republicans,... ...nd other godly Protestants, they will submit to religious teaching, but as republicans they will have no priestcraft. The French at their revolution h...

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... In short, I am, as to classical education, another Shakespear. I can read French as easily as English; and under pressure of necessity I can turn to ... ...e every famous name in literature. I should probably know as much Latin as French, if Latin had not been made the excuse for my school impris- onment ... ...m of mourning is carried in France; but judging from the appearance of the French people I should say that a Frenchwoman goes into mourning for her co... ...er what its political con- victions may be, that there are Monarchists and Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know...

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...on might defeat the allied sovereigns; but such an Englishman would kill a French cuirassier rather than be killed by him just as ener- getically as t... ...rels and to put upon Gallifet the brand that still makes him impossible in French politics as it was for Victor Hugo to bombard Napoleon III from his ... ...poet and composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for ... ...d composer of Siegfried, with the levity of a schoolboy, mocked the French republicans who were do- ing in 1871 what he himself was exiled for doing i... ...for personal spite against his own countrymen than he ever had against the French. No doubt his outburst gratified the pettier feelings which great me...

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...l it shall be otherwise or dained by Congress; if a personal esteem for the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 14 nat... ...We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would w... ...n of our Federal Govern ment. With the catastrophe in which the wars of the French Revolution terminated, and our own subsequent peace with Great Bri... ...ame from the hands of the Conven tion which formed it, many of the sternest republicans of the day were alarmed at the extent of the power which had ... ...d, and with respect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the ... ...Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon the French INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 304 so... ...ster, screen actor, and Governor of California. In the election of 1980, the Republicans won the White House and a majority in the Senate. On inaugura...

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...e like a town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians... ...nt at missing trains. The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their connections at Brussels. That has always infuriate... ... of a second for the one coming from Calais or from Paris. And even if the French train, are just on time, you have to run—imagine a heart patient run... ...castic sentences. That was when she wished to appear like the heroine of a French comedy. Because of course she was always play acting. But what she d... ...d discovered it was only that he was a Democrat. My own people were mostly Republicans. It seemed to make it worse and more darkly mysteri- ous to the...

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...ks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in for eign parts, a French revolution not excepted. What news! how much more important to kno... ...e acquainted with them. I know a woodchop per, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to “keep h... ... cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quar... ...e with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he would sus... ...nd Walden 135 somely written in the snow by the highway, with the proper French accent, and knew that he had passed. I asked him if he ever wished t... ...e field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On ev...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...ved by the British Foreign Office and of somebody or other approved by the French Foreign Office, of somebody with vague pow- ers from America, and so... ...idea. They are morally pledged to it. President Wilson and our British and French spokesmen alike have said over and over again that they want to deal... ...presented as pursuing a Machiavellian policy towards the unfortunate Greek republicans, with her eyes on the Greek islands and Greece in Asia. Is it n... ...statesman V enizelos, the 59 H.G. Wells sacrificing of the friendly Greek republicans in favour of the manifestly treacherous King of Greece, has pro...

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...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...ordinary honesty. It is not by foreign voices, by English newspapers or in French pamphlets, that the corruption of American politicians has been expo... ... may be that our own soldiers were as badly treated in the Crimea; or that French soldiers were treated worse in their march into Russia. It may be th... ...ch through various denominations have sprung those who now call themselves Republicans, was Alexander Hamilton. I be- lieve I may say that all the pol... ...have a close and warm sympathy with those Transatlantic anti-monar- chical republicans who are endeavoring to prove to the world that they have at len... ...ment. Mr. Lincoln was then proclaimed as the Republican candidate, and all Republicans were held as bound to support him. When the time came for the c...

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...ld have produced something better—something up to the highest limit of the French influences and training. In England he rose to the highest limit att... ... by the pagan mother’s distress—Jesuit missionaries in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let ... ...mplexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek ... ...ir immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. Bur gess has always found ha... ... the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the... ...ations. She said she would finish them in the morning, and then her little French friend would arrive from New York—the surprise would follow; the sur...

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...n, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named ... ... came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time in the first year’s course, my st... ...nd of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in th... ...not parade with either party, but occasionally met with the “wide awakes” —Republicans—in their rooms, and su- perintended their drill. It was evident... ...ceived at once, however, that Hardee’s tactics—a mere translation from the French with Hardee’s name attached —was nothing more than common sense and ... ...the country all aglow. This was the first great political campaign for the Republicans in their canvass of 1864. It was followed later by Sheridan’s c... ...s to the Rio Grande to have him where he might aid Juarez in expelling the French from Mexico. These troops got off before they could be stopped; and ...

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...w from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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...s, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s ... ...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ...who fakes a war to distract public attention from a domestic scandal. Some Republicans in Congress raised questions about the timing of the strikes. B... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...urther training that he could use to carry out a potential attack. 92 As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained im... ...t the case. 96 The FBI legal attaché’s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneap...