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In spite of this natural excitement, and of the war itself, carried on by the nation with an increasing enthusiasm of hatred of the House of Austria, no party in the country urged a declaration of déchéance or forfeiture against the dynasty.
When King Wilhelm crossed the frontier he had proclaimed that he warred not with the French nation but with its ruler. That ruler was now his prisoner; but Wilhelm had for adversary now the French nation, because it had taken up the quarrel which might have gone with the Decheance and in effect had made it its own. In the absence of overtures there was no alternative but to march on Paris.
The instructions given to these members of the Council by Lebeau were brief: they were summed up in the one word, Decheance.
There were a few cries of Decheance! fewer still of Vive la Republique among the motley crowds; but they were faint, and chiefly by ragged gamins. A small body repaired to Trochu and offered him the sceptre, which he politely declined.
The stalwart figure of the Pole was seen on the Place de la Concorde, towering amidst other refugees, amid which glided the Italian champion of humanity. The cry of Decheance became louder. But as yet there were only few cries of Vive la Republique! such a cry was not on the orders issued by Lebeau.
If the dear Christ's throne stood on any such flimsy basis of prophecy as men have built up beneath it, then, when the underpinnings came tumbling out, as to-day they are doing, we might fear that His authority was dropping in with them; that no longer we were to call Him Master and King; that criticism had pronounced His decheance.
Padre Francisco lends his presence to cheer the invalid. Father and mother are busied with growing cares, for the siege closes in. The public galleries are now all closed. The days of "decheance" are over. France is struggling out of the hands of tyranny under the invaders' scourge into the nameless horrors of the Commune. It is impossible to get away, and unsafe to stay.
And amidst the general clamour one cry persistently prevailed. It was: "Decheance! Decheance! Dethronement! Dethronement!" Captain Bingham, my father, and myself long frequented the Cafe Gretry, often writing our "Paris letters" there. Subsequent to the war, Bingham and I removed to the Cafe Cardinal, where, however, the everlasting rattle of dominoes proved very disturbing.
The instructions given to these members of the Council by Lebeau were brief: they were summed up in the one word, Decheance.
Thou hast heard of these terrible journals which the decheance has let loose upon us. Our unhappy boy is the principal writer of one of the worst of them, under the name of 'Diderot le Jeune." "What!" cried the Venosta. "That monster! The good Abbe Vertpre was telling us of the writings with that name attached to them.
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