La Dame De Monsoreau By Alexandre Dumas 2 Vols

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781232271871
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Romances of Alexandre Dumas written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...did not leave Santerre for an instant. One might have supposed him charged, by some occult power, with the guardianship of his chief. The multitude was separated into three divisions. The first was commanded by Santerre, the second by SaintHuruge, the third by Theroigne de Mericourt. Towards eleven o'clock, under an order brought by some man unknown, the immense mass of people put itself in motion. At its departure from the Bastille, the procession was composed of nearly twenty thousand men. This troop presented a savage, terrible, and unique aspect. Santerre's division was the best-ordered. There were in it a goodly number of uniforms; and for weapons they had a fair supply of muskets and bayonets. The other two divisions constituted the army of the populace, ragged, lean, and haggard, --after four years of privation and of bread-scarcity, with three Revolutionary years among the four. This was the slum from which this army had come forth. They had no guns and no uniforms. Their vests were in tatters, their blouses torn. Their odd weapons were such as they could light upon in the first wrathful impulse, at the first call for defence. There were pikes, pitchforks, rusty spears, sabres without hilts, blades fastened to long sticks, carpenters' axes, masons' hammers, shoeknives. For a standard there was a gibbet, with a dangling puppet, to represent the Queen. There was also an ox-head, with an obscene motto interlaced with the horns; and a calf's heart stuck on the point of a spit, with the words: Heart of an Aristocrat I Then there were flags with these legends: APPROVE THE EDICTS, OE DIE! RECALL THE PATRIOT COUNCIL.' TYRANT, TREMBLE! THY HOUR HAS COME! At the corner of the Hue Saint Antoine the multitude split into two parts. Santerre and his National Guard...