The last days of the French monarchyBelloc, Hilaire
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The last days of the French monarchy
Belloc, Hilaire
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Deputy from Paris to the
National Assembly 42
Gabriel Honoré Riquetti, Comte De Mirabeau 46
Allegory of the oath-taking in the Tennis-Court at
Versailles 51
“Vive le Roi! Vive la Nation!” 55
The National Assembly Petrified 58
The National Assembly Revivified 58
Madame Elisabeth 63
The end of the flight of the Royal Family at Varennes 66
The Royal Family at Varennes, June 22, 1791 71
Drouet, the Postmaster at Varennes 74
The return to Paris 79
The arrival of the Royal Family in Paris, June 25, 1791 82
Enrolling volunteers in Paris on the Pont Neuf, before
the statue of Henry IV 93
The Storming of the Tuileries 94
The Assault on the Tuileries 99
A Soldier of the National Guard 100
Grenadier of the Infantry of Ligné 100
Marie-Antoinette and her Children 103
Louis XVI--The Forge in the Palace at Versailles 106
The Tuileries and its Garden in 1757 111
The Struggle in the Halls of the Tuileries, August
10, 1792 114
Armand Gaston, Cardinal de Rohan 131
Cartoon of the Three Orders [The Clergy, Nobility
and the Commons] in the National Assembly
Forging the New Constitution 139
A Popular Print at the time of the Revolution 142
Maximilien Robespierre 147
Georges Jacques Danton 149
Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis
de Lafayette 164
Ceremonial Costume of the Clergy, the Nobility and
the Commons 171
Uniforms of the Army of French Emigrants 172
Goethe, who was with the German Army at Valmy 177
Marshal François-Christophe Kellermann, Duke of
Valmy 183
A Republican General 186
A Colonel of Infantry 186
Under the Mill at Valmy 192
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