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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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-isters—who, like a noble of whom I have told you, had saidthat the people might eat grass if they were hungry—ty-ing a necklace of thistles round his neck and a bunch ofgrass round his waist, tearing him from the hall where hewas going to be tried, dragging him down the stairs, nowhead down, now head up, hanging his half dead body to alamp-post, and marching round Paris with his bloody headon the end of a pike. The French were dreadfully in ear-nest by this time; all the piled-uj) passion of centuries wasboiling over at once. In the country parts, where the peasants had borne suchdreadful hardships from their feudal lords, the same thingswere done. Castles were stormed, gutted, and burned ; inmany cases the owners and their families were massacred,I am afraid, with dreadful cruelties. In larger books thanthis, you will read touching stories of the rescue of ladiesof noble family by faithful servants from furious peasants,who would be satisfied with nothing short of the extinc- ,1
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STORMING THE B A STILE tion of the class which had oppressed them so long and somercilessly. All this while the Assembly was trjdng to make new lawsfor France. It was found impossible to mend the old ones.A young man of whom you will hear more—his name wasRobespierre—proposed to build from the ground up, andthough he was a poor speaker, with a harsh voice and abad manner, his head was so clear that the Assembly paid1<7 274 (1789-1791 a great dealof attention to him. The king seemed to beparalyzed ; he went about in a feeble way, asking adviceof every one he met ; the queen was far more of a man ;she gathered foreign soldiers and young French noblemenround her, and made ready for the death-grapple that shesaw coming. She was not the only woman who was at work. Breadwas frightfully scarce in Paris. Women could not feedtheir children. One day, when they found there was nobread at the bakers, a crowd of women collected together,and, arming themselves with bludgeons, broomsticks, cu

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