Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
I saw the swaggering turcos in their scarlet breeches, the crowded troop-ships, and from every ship's mast the glorious tri-color of France; the flag that in ten short years had again risen, that was flying over advancing columns in China, in Africa, in Madagascar; over armies that for Alsace Lorraine were giving France new and great colonies on every seaboard of the world.
"Well, then," said the baron, "let a council of regency be established. You would take part in it with Lafayette." M. Lafitte replied, "Yesterday that might have been possible; and, had the Duchess de Berri separating her cause from that of the old king presented herself, with her young son, holding a tri-color in her hand "
Talleyrand at the head of three hundred priests clad in white, with tri-color sashes, officiated at an altar in the midst of the arena. First, La Fayette as president of the National Guard, then the president of the Assembly, and last the king, took an oath before the half-million of spectators to uphold the constitution.
"I do not know, however, whether or not the Austrian air will accustom itself to the tri-color of France, and I pray you kindly to consider, general, that the enterprise you are going to undertake is something extraordinary and altogether unheard of.
From the palace of the Tuileries waved the tri-color of the republic, and in the palace of the former Knights Templars is a pale, sad woman, with gray hair and sunken eyes, a broken heart, and a bowed form.
"It is not the American flag," said Pencroft from time to time, "nor the English, the red of which could be easily seen, nor the French or German colors, nor the white flag of Russia, nor the yellow of Spain. One would say it was all one color. Let's see: in these seas, what do we generally meet with? The Chilean flag? but that is tri-color. Brazilian? it is green.
He dismisses Necker. -The Baron de Breteuil is appointed Prime Minister. Terrible Riots in Paris. The Tri-color Flag is adopted. Storming of the Bastile and Murder of the Governor. The Count d'Artois and other Princes fly from the Kingdom. The King recalls Necker. Withdraws the Soldiers and visits Paris. Formation of the National Guard.-Insolence of La Fayette and Bailly.
Eastward, beyond the tall trees in the garden of the Tuileries, rises the long front of the Palace, with the tri-color floating above; westward, in front of us, is the Forest of the Elysian Fields, with the arch of triumph nearly a mile and a half distant, looking down from the end of the avenue, at the Barriere de Neuilly.
The Toulon administrators continue furnishing the Italian army with supplies. July 19, an English boat, sent to parley, had to lower the white flag and hoist the tri-color flag. "We present to the Convention our individual recantation and declaration; in conforming to the law we are entitled to its protection. Bordeaux had submitted on the 2nd of August.
I could see him at Toulon; I could see him at Paris, putting down the mob; I could see him at the head of the army of Italy; I could see him crossing the bridge of Lodi, with the tri-color in his hand; I saw him in Egypt, fighting battles under the shadow of the Pyramids; I saw him returning; I saw him conquer the Alps, and mingle the eagles of France with the eagles of Italy; I saw him at Marengo, I saw him at Austerlitz; I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the blast smote his legions, when death rode the icy winds of winter.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking