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Reform, the necessity of, generally admitted; granted by Louis XVI.. Rejoicings, general, in France at the birth of the princess; at the birth of the dauphin. Republic declared. "Restorer of French Liberty," title given to the king. Rétaux de Villette. Retrenchment in court expenditure. Reveillon, M., and the Paris riot. Revolution of 1789 commenced. Revolutionary tribunal; trial of the queen.
It was now the day before Christmas; Madame Descoings would certainly go out to buy some dainties for the "reveillon," the midnight meal; and she might also take occasion to pay up her stake. The lottery was drawn every five days in different localities, at Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Strasburg, and Paris.
I had it from Boursac, who arrived at the Club two hours ago with both windows of his carriage broken, the panels splintered, and his coachman with a bloody cheek. He had tried to pass through the faubourg, where two hundred of the rabble have been killed by Besenval's Swiss Guards at the house of a paper merchant, Reveillon.
Réveillon is made to say, that a workman can live upon fifteen sous per diem, and behold his manufactory destroyed from top to bottom.
Gratitude of the Citizens. The Princes are concerned in the Libels published against the Queen. Preparations for the Meeting of the States-general. Long Disuse of that Assembly. Need of Reform. Vices of the Old Feudal System. Necker's Blunders in the Arrangements for the Meeting of the States. An Edict of the King concedes the Chief Demands of the Commons. Views of the Queen. The Réveillon Riot.
At the same time, Montgolfier was busy constructing, at the request of the Academy of Sciences, a balloon seventy feet high and forty in diameter, with which it was proposed to repeat the experiment of Annonay. He took up his quarters in the magnificent gardens of his friend Reveillon, proprietor of the royal manufactory of stained paper in the Faubourg St. Antoine.
All that I desire of you is to take care that the respect which is due to the king shall not be weakened; " and it was only her most intimate friends who knew how unwise she thought the different decisions that had been adopted, or how deep were her forebodings of evil. The Reveillon Riot. Opening of the States-general. The Queen is insulted by the Partisans of the Duc d'Orléans.
The Duke of Ampoule, who was the great financier of the party, was chosen treasurer and charged with organising funds for the propaganda. The meeting was on the point of coming to an end when a rough voice was heard singing an old air: Boscenos est un gros cochon; On en va faire des andouilles Des saucisses et du jambon Pour le reveillon des pauv' bougres.
This was followed by a demonstration before Louis XVI at Versailles, when a balloon carrying a sheep, a cock, and a duck, rose 1,500 feet and descended safely. And on November 21st of the same year Pilatre de Rozier, accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlande, made the first human ascent, in the "Reveillon," travelling 5 miles over Paris in twenty minutes.
Beaulieu, Marshal. Beaumarchais, M. Beauty of Marie Antoinette. Beauvau, M. de, and the Opposition. Bertrand, M.. Besenval, Baron de; and the Reveillon riot. Bishop Lamourette; Talleyrand. Body-guard, ball given by the; and the Versailles mob; protecting the court. Boehmer, the court jeweler. Boillé, Marquis de; flies from France. Boutourlin's, M., attacks on M. Necker. Brandywine, Battle of.
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