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'Such as like to die on a British deck, remain with me. The boarders sprang up the side of the 'Créole' before the crew could fasten the grapples. Tonnerre de Dieu! what a moment it was! The fellows cheered like madmen, as they poured in to certain death; the lieutenant himself was one of the first on board, and fell back the same instant, dead upon his own deck.
He moved an address to the king, warning him that, if he did not withdraw his troops, the streets of Paris would run blood; and proposing that the preservation of order should be committed to a civic guard. On the following day the Assembly voted the address, and on the 10th the Count de Clermont Tonnerre, at the head of a deputation, read it to the king.
Bailly, La Fayette, Lameth, La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Clermont Tonnerre were among the conspicuous men of the club, but whatever their worth most of them were associated with a too narrow, unyielding attitude to obtain any wide support.
Yet the air must be finding entrance elsewhere more freely than from the window. Perplexity mastered him for a little, and then he concluded that the current could come from nowhere else than behind the array of marshalled empty bottles. "Tonnerre!" said he to himself, "I have begun my career as wine merchant rather late in life or I had taken more interest in these dead gentlemen.
You received it, did you not?" "To be sure, and Monsieur de Géry should have answered it this morning. What you ask is impossible. Twenty thousand francs! tonnerre de Dieu! how fast you go." "It seems to me, however, that my services " stammered the fop. "Have been handsomely paid. So it seems to me too. Two hundred thousand francs in five months! We will stop at that, if you please.
In the West of England, the labourers will tell you that the thunder-axes they dig up fell from the sky. In Brittany, says Mr. Tylor, the old man who mends umbrellas at Carnac, beside the mysterious stone avenues of that great French Stonehenge, inquires on his rounds for pierres de tonnerre, which of course are found with suspicious frequency in the immediate neighbourhood of prehistoric remains.
Corps de Dieu! Nombril de Belzebuth! Nom d'un pape! Come et tonnerre." "Upon my soul!" exclaimed Jehan, "that can only be my friend, Captain Phoebus!" This name of Phoebus reached the ears of the archdeacon at the moment when he was explaining to the king's procurator the dragon which is hiding its tail in a bath, from which issue smoke and the head of a king.
"'Mademoiselle, he began, 'I have just learnt but it is an infamy! Permettez I am French, I also, though you do not know me perhaps. "And with that M. Benest stammered and came to a halt, for her eyes were worse than woeful. They were accusing yes, accusing him. Of what? Nom de tonnerre, what had he done? "'You, Monsieur! You an officer of France! "'Mais quel rapport y a-t-il?
So this was her reward for secretly instructing the coiffeur to make the "Princess's" wig first. The Princess, indeed! Ah, the adventuress! She felt choking; she shook her fist in the air. Not even the brooch to show when her family came up from Tonnerre, to say nothing of the wig. Was there a God in the world at all? Oh, holy Mother!
To reassure the public, Necker was immediately reinstated, on the basis that Louis should accept, as now seemed inevitable, the fusion of the orders. On the 25th, a large group of nobles headed by the Duc d'Orléans and the Comte de Clermont Tonnerre joined the assembly, and a week later the Assemblée Nationale was fully constituted, the three orders merged into one.
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