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Their leaders at this time were Barnave; a young noble named Alexander Lameth, whose mother, having been left in necessitous circumstances, owed to the bounty of the king and queen the means of educating her children, a benefit which they repaid with the most unremitting hostility to the whole royal family; and a lawyer named Duport.
"'Take Catharine away! I answered to Duport: 'never! 'Now, said my husband, whose lips were already white with rage,'do not provoke me, or I'll knock you down! Then he took my child by the arm, saying, Come with me, Catharine. The poor little thing threw her arms around my neck; bursting into tears, she cried, 'I wish to stay with mamma! Seeing this, Duport became furious: he tore my child from me, giving me a blow with his fist, which knocked me down; and once down but, do you see, La Lorraine," said poor Jeanne, interrupting herself, "it is very certain he would not have been so cruel, except he had been drinking in fine, he trampled upon me, loading me with curses."
He was led to his fate with the respected Duport du Tertre, one of the last ministers of Louis XVI. when he had ascended the scaffold, Barnave stamped, raised his eyes to heaven, and said: "This, then, is the reward of all that I have done for liberty!" He fell on the 29th of October, 1793, in the thirty-second year of his age; his bust was placed in the Grenoble Museum.
The scheme of Duport, De Lameth, and Barnave was to thwart and weaken the Mirabeau and Orleans faction, by gradually persuading them, in consequence of the King's compliance with whatever the Assembly exacted, that they could do no better than to let him into a share of the executive power; for now nothing was left to His Majesty but responsibility, while the privileges of grace and justice had become merely nominal, with the one dangerous exception of the veto, to which he could never have recourse without imminent peril to his cause and to himself.
The cherubim descend, then, from heaven, as is written in the church books," said Jeanne Duport, trembling, and scarcely daring to look at her benefactress. "Why so much goodness for me? How have I deserved this? It cannot be possible! I leave the hospital, where I have wept so much, suffered so much! not leave my children any more! have a nurse! why, it is a miracle from above!"
In this way men of varying opinions were united in the conclusion that the powers emanating from the people ought not to be needlessly divided. Besides Sieyès, who found ideas, and Talleyrand, who found expedients, several groups were, for the time, associated with the party which was managed by Duport.
"Once more reassure yourself, my good mother have no uneasiness," repeated the marchioness, pressing in her small white hand the burning one of Jeanne Duport.
Another orchestral composer is Theodosia de Tschitscherin, whose Grand Festival March was performed at a coronation anniversary. The Countess Olga Janina, one of Liszt's pupils, is at present a teacher and pianist at Paris, where she has published a considerable amount of piano music. Marie Duport is another Russian piano composer.
The Queen, her eyes suffused with tears, granted him that favour, and remained impressed with a favourable idea of his sentiments. Madame Elisabeth participated in this opinion, and the two Princesses frequently spoke of Barnave. The Queen also received M. Duport several times, but with less mystery. Her connection with the constitutional deputies transpired.
I caught my daughter by the arm, and asked Duport, 'Where do you wish to take her? 'That does not concern you she is my daughter; let her tie up some clothes and follow me. At these words my blood curdled in my veins; for, imagine, La Lorraine, that this woman who is with my husband it makes me shudder to say it, but " "Ah! yes, she is a real monster."
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