United States or Libya ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"It can do much by meeting, and cherishing resentment if the meeting be dispersed by an armed force, which it would be waste of life to resist." "We shall see when the time comes," said Monnier, with a fierce gleam in his bold eyes. "I tell you, all that is required at this moment is an evident protest of the artisans of Paris against the votes of the 'rurals' of France. Do you comprehend me?"
The reader enjoys in the present book the great advantage of seeing the ideas of the Social Reformers discussed pro and contra, M. Lourdoueix being their obstinate adversary. Mémoires de M. Joseph Prudhomme, par HENRI MONNIER. 2 vols. Paris. 1857.
"No, no, the cruel man who talked him into it into all that has changed the best workman, the kindest heart the the " again her voice died in sobs. "And who was that man?" asked De Mauleon, falteringly. "His name was Lebeau. If you were a poor man, I should say 'Shun him." "I have heard of the name you mention; but if we mean the same person, Monnier cannot have met him lately.
Even Armand Monnier, still out of work, beginning to feel the pinch of want, and fierce for any revolution that might turn topsy-turvy the conditions of labour, even Armand Monnier was found among groups that were laying immortelles at the foot of the column in the Place Vendome, and heard to say to a fellow malcontent, with eyes uplifted to the statue of the First Napoleon, "Do you not feel at this moment that no Frenchman can be long angry with the Little Corporal?
"You, Armand Monnier, simple ouvrier, but of illustrious parentage, for your grandsire was the beloved friend of the virtuous Robespierre, your father perished a hero and a martyr in the massacre of the coup d'etat; you, cultured in the eloquence of Robespierre himself, and in the persuasive philosophy of Robespierre's teacher, Rousseau; you, the idolized orator of the Red Republicans, you will be indeed a chief of dauntless bands when the trumpet sounds for battle.
He would have assessed such opinions at their real worth; and whatever that worth might seem to him, would not to such opinions have committed the conduct of his life. Opinion is not fateful: conduct is. A little knowledge crazes an earnest, warm-blooded, powerful creature like Armand Monnier into a fanatic.
The same thing happened at Beaulevrier and at Mothois; but on approaching Gournay his memory returned, and he led Manginot to a house in the hamlet of Saint-Clair which he asserted was the one to which Monnier had sent him. On entering the courtyard he recognised the servant to whom he had given the horse six months before, a groom named Joseph Planchon.
The fumes of wine still clouded his mind, but rays of intelligence broke through the cloud. Suddenly he said in a loud, and calm, and natural voice: "Mons. le Vicomte, you accost me as Armand Monnier pray how do you know my name?" "How should I not know it? I have looked into the meetings of the 'Clubs rouges. I have heard you speak, and naturally asked your name. Bon soir M. Monnier!
"Va, citoyen," said one fugitive, an officer-popularly elected, because he was the loudest brawler in the club of the Salle Favre, we have seen him before Charles, the brother of Armand Monnier; "men can't fight when they despise their generals. It is our generals who are poltroons and fools both." "Carry my answer to the ghosts of cowards," cried De Mauldon, and shot the man dead.
A century later, in 1746, Le Monnier exhibited a series of experiments in the Royal Gardens at Paris, showing how electricity could be transmitted through iron wire 950 fathoms in length; and in 1753 we find one Charles Marshall publishing a remarkable description of the electric telegraph in the Scots Magazine, under the title of 'An expeditions Method of conveying Intelligence. Again, in 1760, we find George Louis Lesage, professor of mathematics at Geneva, promulgating his invention of an electric telegraph, which he eventually completed and set to work in 1774.
Word Of The Day