The French Revolution (Volume 1); A History - Tapa blanda

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1838. Excerpt: ... 155 CHAPTER II. MERCURY DE BREZE. Now surely were the time for a ' god from the machine;' there is a nodus worthy of one. The only question is, Which God ? Shall it be Mars de Broglie, with his hundred pieces of cannon ? --Not yet, answers prudence; so soft, irresolute is King Louis. Let it be Messenger Mercury, our Supreme Usher de Breze ! On the morrow, which is the 20th of June, these Hundred and Forty-nine false Curates, no longer restrainable by his Grace of Paris, will desert in a body: let de Breze intervene, and produce --closed doors ! Not only shall there be Royal Session, in that Salle des Menus; but no meeting, nor working (except by carpenters), till then. Your Third Estate, self-styled 'National ' Assembly,' shall suddenly see itself extruded from its Hall, by carpenters, in this dexterous way; and reduced to do nothing, not even to meet, or articulately lament,--till Majesty, with Stance Royale and new miracles, be ready! In this manner shall de Breze, as Mercury ex machind, intervene; and, if the CEil-deBffiuf mistake not, work deliverance from the nodus. Of poor de Breze we can remark that he has yet prospered in none of his dealings with these Commons. Five weeks ago, when they kissed the hand of Majesty, the mode he took got nothing but censure; and then his ' sincere attachment,' how it was scornfully whiffed aside ! Before supper, this night, he writes to President Bailly, a new Letter, to be delivered shortly after dawn tomorrow, in the King's name. Which Letter, however, Bailly, in the pride of office, will merely crush together, into his pocket, like a bill he does not mean to pay. Accordingly, on Saturday morning the 20th of June, shrillsounding heralds proclaim, through the street of Versailles, that there is to be Stance Royale next Monday; and no meeting ...