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Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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spedone virago to his royal bosom. A regiment of life-guardsendeavored to push them back without opening fire, butlost several of its men. At last General Lafayette, whohad returned from this country and was the darling of thepeople, arrived at Versailles, got most of the women backto Paris, where bread had been provided for them, and dis-persed the mob of men who had followed them. He couldonly do this, however, by undertaking that the king shouldgo back from Versailles to Paris and stay there. The king and queen started from Versailles at one inthe afternoon. One hundred members of the Assembly fol-lowed them in carriages. In front of the kings carriagemarched the remnant of the furious mob of women of theday before, waving pikes and singing horrible songs. Be-fore them straggled men carrying two heads of life-guards-men on the ends of pikes. Behind the king rode his guards,unarmed ; and all along the road Lafayette had scatteredsoldiers to guard his majesty against a sudden attack.
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DEATH OF GOVERNOR DELAUNAY, OF THE BASTTLE Considering bow Louis had fought against returning toParis, where the mob frightened him, I am a little sur-prised at his address to the mayor when he reached the City Hall. I return with confidence, he said, into the midst of my people of Paris. There was one man in whom the king really had confi-dence. That was Mirabeau. Both king and queen sawhim frequently in secret at night, and took counsel with 276 (1789-1791 him. It has been said that he was in their pay. I thinkit likely that he took money from them, because he wasalways wasteful and needy ; but I hope that what he didfor them was prompted by sympathy and not bribery.The tiger that has had the small-pox, as Mirabeau calledhimself, would naturally feel proud of protecting a king. Whatever his motive was, it was soon going to disap-pear, for Mirabeau was dying. The nearer death came,the more powerful he grew. In the Assembly he hadalways been a tower of strength—he was now master.Und

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