Louis XVII, His Life, His Suffering, His Death: The Captivity of the Royal Family in the TempleHarper & Brothers, 1855 |
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Trang 344 - The stranger added that he had orders to accompany me, and that a carriage waited for us in the street. I went with him to the Tuileries, where the council held its meetings. I found all the ministers assembled. Consternation appeared in their countenances As soon as I entered they arose, and all surrounded me with eagerness. The minister of justice first addressed me. ' Are you,' said he, ' the citizen Edgeworth de Firmont ?
Trang 351 - Christian king, can easily judge of the deep impres sion it must have made on me. But, what most astonished me was, that the monarch had fortitude sufficient to read it himself, which he did nearly twice over. His voice was firm, and no change was to be seen in his countenance, except when he read names most dear to him, then all his tenderness was awakened; he was obliged to pause a moment, and his tears flowed, notwithstanding his efforts to restrain them ; but when he read passages that concerned...
Trang 375 - As soon as the King had left the carriage, three guards surrounded him, and would have taken off his clothes, but he repulsed them with haughtiness. He undressed himself, untied his neckcloth, opened his shirt and arranged it himself. The guards, whom the determined countenance of the King had for a moment disconcerted, seemed to recover their audacity. They surrounded him again, and would have seized his hands. " ' What are you attempting ? ' said the King, drawing back his hands. ' To bind you,
Trang 349 - ... barrier stood a sentinel; these men were actual sans culottes, ,and almost all drunk; the shouts they made, re-echoing through the vaults of the Temple, were quite horrible. '.. . ., ." When we reached the apartment of the King, all the doors of which were open, I perceived him in a group...
Trang 350 - ... for them to retire, they obeyed in silence, he himself shut the door after them, and I found myself alone with my sovereign. " Till this moment I had been able to command the various emotions with which I had been agitated; but at the sight of a prince, who had been once so great, and who was now so unfortunate, I was no longer master of myself, I could not restrain my tears, and I fell at his feet without the power of utterance. This touched him more than the decree, which he had just heard;...
Trang 356 - ... with me, as we were obliged to do to all good Christians, who were detained in their own houses; but the strict search it was necessary to submit to in coming to the Temple, and the profanation which would infallibly have followed, were motives more than sufficient to have prevented me. There remained no other resource than for me to say mass in the King's chamber, if I could find the means. I proposed it to him, but though he desired it most ardently, he seemed afraid of compromising my safety....
Trang 346 - ... speaking to each other, at last they appeared. One of them was a young man of about seventeen or eighteen, they saluted the minister as an acquaintance; he told them in a few words who I was, and the nature of my mission ; they made a sign to me to follow them, and we all together crossed the garden to the tower. Here the scene became horrible beyond description: the door of the tower, though very narrow and very low, opened with a terrible noise, it was loaded with iron bolts and bars; we passed...
Trang 347 - Minister, who went up stairs to the King, while the other half remained to guard me. When the doors were carefully closed, the oldest of the commissaries approached me with a polite but embarrassed air, spoke of the terrible responsibility he was under, and begged a thousand pardons for the liberty he was obliged to take. I guessed that this preamble was to end in my being searched, so I anticipated him, by saying, that since the reputation of M.
Trang 357 - They re-conducted me to the King, who awaited with anxiety the conclusion of this affair. The summary account which I gave him, in which I suppressed all particulars, pleased him extremely. " It was now past ten o'clock, and I remained with the King till the night was far advanced ; when perceiving that he was fatigued, I requested him to take some repose. He complied with his accustomed kindness, and charged me to lie down also.
Trang 362 - In a short time detachments of cavalry entered the court of the Temple, and the voices of officers, and the trampling of horses, were distinctly heard. The King listened again, and said to me, with the same composure, ' They • seem to be approaching.