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"Brave and vigorous sans-culottes!" writes a deputy on leaving a mission and announcing his successor, "You seem to have desired a good b... of a representative, who has never swerved from his principles, that is to say, a regular Montagnard. I have fulfilled your wishes, and you will have the same thing in citizen Ingrand.
"Well, I give my word to Widow Capet, as a republican and a sans-culottes, that there shall be no smoking in the anteroom after this time, if she will do my friend Toulan the favor of smoking a pipe of peace with him." "I believe your word," said the queen, with a gentle inclination of her head; and then turning to Toulan, she continued, "sir "
"You are a pair of out-and-out republicans," said Simon, admiringly. "Truly, one might learn of you how a sans-culottes ought to bear himself." "Well, you can calm yourselves about these, brothers," said one of the officials; "we have no tyrant-cards we have the new cards of the republic.
The France we loved is no more. The twentieth of June saw the last vestige of Louis's power pass for ever. That day ten thousand of the sans-culottes forced their way into the palace to kill him. A faithful few surrounded him. In the mad turmoil, we were fearful, he was serene.
Origin of the Name Sans-culottes. Union of Different Parties against the Queen. War is declared against the Empire. Operations in the Netherlands. Unskillfulness of La Fayette. The King falls into a State of Torpor. Fresh Libels on the Queen. Barnave's Advice. Dumouriez has an Audience of the Queen. Dissolution of the Constitutional Guard. Formation of a Camp near Paris.
This did not, however, become well marked until after the conclusion of the great struggle between the Mountain and the Gironde, which entered its last phase in May. On the 12th of that month the Convention voted the formation of an army of sans-culottes for the defence of Paris, a measure of more significance for the internal than for the external affairs of France.
Bertram came out of the carriage, and, collared by the constable as he put his foot on the ground, was dragged, though he offered no resistance, across the threshold, amid the continued shouts of the little sans-culottes, who looked on at such distance as their fear of Mrs. Mac-Guffog permitted.
"They stole one hundred and forty five louis d'or and paid me with an acquittance for a tax for the sans-culottes, which is another robbery done to the citizens of this commune where I have neither home nor possessions." "Who committed this robbery?" "It was Citizen Berger, of the municipal council." "Was nothing else taken from you?"
The warriors of Rude who are chanting the Marseillaise in the group at the left are not professional soldiers, they are armed citizens, marching to work out their sublime and violent mission. Their nudity makes them appear to me like sans-culottes in Grecian helmets. . . . Here there is more than the glory and egoism of a great nation.
"The time for deliberation is past," exclaims their spokesman, "we must act ... Let the people rouse themselves in a mass... it alone can annihilate its enemies... We demand that all 'suspects' be put under arrest; that they be dispatched to the frontiers, followed by the terrible mass of sans-culottes.
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