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Updated: May 8, 2025
The citoyen Beauvisage, in his red cap, the badge of his office, put out his long arms in the attitude of a peacemaker, and addressing the porter and the joiner: "A hundred sols," he announced, "to whichever of you will inform us where to find a suspect, wanted by the Committee of General Security, a ci-devant named des Ilettes, a maker of dancing-dolls."
Turning to him: "There stands the citoyen Évariste Gamelin," she said, "for whose sake I have spent the day at the Committee of General Security, and who is an ungrateful wretch. Scold him for me." "Ah! citoyenne," cried the young soldier, "you have seen our Legislators at the Tuileries. What an afflicting sight!
"But the Citoyenne Cecile has the key," answered the woman, eager to oblige him. "Why, yes naturally! Now that is fortunate. Will you do me the favour to procure the key from he Citoyenne for a few moments, telling her, of course, that it is I who need it?" "But certainly, Montez, Citoyen." And with a wave of the hand towards the stairs she went before him.
She told him she was the sister of the citoyen Chassagne, a prisoner at the Luxembourg, explained as speciously as she could the circumstances under which he had been arrested, represented him as an innocent man, the victim of mischance, pleaded more and more urgently; but he remained callous and unsympathetic. She fell at his feet in supplication and burst into tears.
Grospierre was a bit drunk, but he thought himself very clever; he looked into the casks most of them, at least and saw they were empty, and let the cart go through." A murmur of wrath and contempt went round the group of ill-clad wretches, who crowded round Citoyen Bibot. "Half an hour later," continued the sergeant, "up comes a captain of the guard with a squad of some dozen soldiers with him.
The citoyen Brotteaux read the lines, though not without casting a surreptitious glance at the golden pate of the pretty girl in front of him and enjoying a sniff of the heady perfume of the little slut's hot skin. The poet Lucretius was a wise man, but he had only one string to his bow; his disciple Brotteaux had several. So he read on, taking two steps forward every quarter of an hour.
From that moment his popularity waned. The patriots who had applauded the ploughboy, cursed the capitalist. He discreetly left them to recover from their rage as best they could, and returned to Sairmeuse. There everyone bowed low before Citoyen Lacheneur. Unlike most people, he did not forget his past hopes at the moment when they might be realized.
If you are of the same opinion, citoyen Gamelin, you will join me in demanding, at the next assembly, that the Committee of Benevolence concert measures with the Military Committee to succour the families that are in indigence and have a relative at the front." He smiled and hummed to himself: "Ça ira! ça ira!..."
The citoyen Pelleport, officer of health, who at the same moment appeared at the door of the farm kitchen where he had been bestowing his professional services on the Poitrine baby, stepped up to the artists and after complimenting them on their talents, which were an honour to the whole nation, pointed to the Tronche girl in the middle of her porkers: "You see that creature," he said, "it is not one girl, it is two girls.
With this agreeable piece of intelligence, I immediately returned to the inn, where it induced us to drink health and success to the friendly merchant in another bottle of champaign. Passports procured. Coins. Town of Havre. Carts. Citoyen. Honfleur. Deserters. Prefect de Marine. Ville de Sandwich. French Farmers. Sir Sydney Smith. Catherine de Medicis. Light Houses. Rafts.
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