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All this time I had seen nothing of our own coachman, and I fully expected that he had abandoned us altogether. In a few minutes I saw him staggering up the street in a state of intoxication, attempting to sing the Marseillois hymn. I said nothing to him, but sat observing him. He stood for some time staring at the mules and talking incoherent nonsense in French.
ROUGET, who was then an officer of engineers at Strasburg, was requested to compose a martial hymn. Full of poetic fire, he shut himself up in his chamber, and, in the course of one night, wrote the words of the Marseillois, adapting to them music, also of his own composition.
"Greeks, Romans, Yankeedoodles, and Hindoos," and more nations than could be described in a whole stanza of names, may be found clustering in knots, or lounging under the awnings of their different coffee-houses; while new detachments of fresh-men are seen continually landing, with lank staring quarantine faces, and elbowed in every direction by the busy Marseillois, whose curiosity is too much deadened by continual importations, to be excited by the newest or strangest costume.
"Ay," he muttered to himself, "be slaves what you are worthy to be, that you will be! You dare not combine you dare not starve you dare not die and therefore you dare not be free! Oh! for six hundred men like Barbaroux's Marseillois 'who knew how to die!"
But the cell to which she was doomed proved her last habitation upon earth. On the 1st of September the Marseillois began their murderous operations. The spirit which produced the massacres of the prisons at Paris extended them through the principal towns and cities all over France. Even the universal interest felt for the Princesse de Lamballe was of no avail against this frenzy.
But the cell to which she was doomed proved her last habitation upon earth. On the 1st of September the Marseillois began their murderous operations. The spirit which produced the massacres of the prisons at Paris extended them through the principal towns and cities all over France. Even the universal interest felt for the Princesse de Lamballe was of no avail against this frenzy.
He sung, at my request, the Marseillois, and sung it with such emphasis, energy, and attitude, as to make me sincerely repent the having called forth such a deafening exhibition of his powers.
It is true, the reign of Robespierre and his sanguinary tribunal are execrated in studied phrases; yet is it enough to adopt humanity as a mode, to sing the Revel du Peuple in preference to the Marseillois, or to go to a theatre with a well-powdered head, instead of cropped locks a la Jacobin?
But the cell to which she was doomed proved her last habitation upon earth. On the 1st of September the Marseillois began their murderous operations. The spirit which produced the massacres of the prisons at Paris extended them through the principal towns and cities all over France. Even the universal interest felt for the Princesse de Lamballe was of no avail against this frenzy.
In the detestable ruffians who disgraced the good cause of loyalty on this occasion, we recognize the same black and fiery blood which flowed in the veins of the Marseillois assassins of 1793, and of the fanatics of Nismes: and whose ebullitions render them equally hateful as friends or enemies.
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