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Radoux, an architect, Deluc, Mallarmet, Félix Bony, Luneau, an ex-Captain of the Republican Guard, Camille Berru, editor of the Avénement, gay, warmhearted, and dauntless, and that young Eugène Millelot, who was destined to be condemned at Cayenne to receive 200 lashes, and to expire at the twenty-third stroke, before the very eyes of his father and brother, proscribed and convicts like himself.
The King and the renounce the Gifts of Le Joyeux Avénement and La Ceinture de la Reine. -She procures the Pardon of the Due de Choiseul. Throughout the morning of the 10th of May there was great confusion and agitation at Versailles.
He renounced the tax called "Le joyeux avenement;" and to commemorate the act, another snuff-box made its appearance in Paris as a pendant to the "Consolation in Grief."
Serrière, the courageous printer, came to tell us what had happened at the Presse. Serrière published the Presse and the Avénement du Peuple, the latter a new name for the Evénement, which had been judicially suppressed. This man had given Serrière an order prohibiting the printing of any article signed "Nusse." A Commissary of Police accompanied Lieutenant Pape.
The Nationale was represented by Alexander Rey and Léopold Duras, the Révolution by Xavier Durrieu, Vasbenter, and Watripon, the Avénement du Peuple by H. Coste, nearly all the other editors of the Avénement being in prison. All were standing. They were talking without order. Léopold Duras had just described the investment of the Café Bonvalet.
This Commissary had notified Serrière of a "decree of the President of the Republic," suppressing the Avénement du Peuple, and had placed sentinels over the presses. The workmen had resisted, and one of them said to the soldiers, "We shall print it in spite of you."
Louis consults the Queen on Matters of Policy. Her Prudence. She begins to Purify the Court, and to relax the Rules of Etiquette. The King and she renounce the Gifts of Le Joyeux Avénement, and La Ceinture de la Reine. She procures the Pardon of the Duc de Choiseul. The Comte de Provence intrigues against the Queen. The King gives her the Little Trianon. She lays out an English Garden.
Gensonné, M. Germany, death of Francis, emperor of; and France, feelings in regarding Marie Antoinette's marriage. Gibraltar, siege of. Gifts of Le Joyeuse Avénement and La Ceinture de la Reine renounced. Girondins, rise of the; fall of the. Gluck appointed to teach the harpsichord; visits Paris. Goethe. Goldsmith's prediction of a French revolution. Grains, war of the. Grammont, Countess de.
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