Love and Liberty
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Translation of: Le volontaire de 1792
Excerpt:Of all the remarkably interesting events connected with the French Revolution, perhaps the one most worthy of notice is the flight of Louis XVI, and his capture at Varennes. At the time when I determined to take the trip of which I will give you some details, and which put me in possession of the memoirs I am about to publish — that is to say, about the 19th of June, 1856 — I had read almost all that had been written concerning the above-mentioned flight. I wish to start from Chalons because from the fact of the King being recognized there, came the train of events which ended at Varennes on the evening of his arrest.
Some contents:
HOW M. DUMAS CAME TO WRITE THESE MEMOIRS 23
A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.
(RENE BESSOX.)
I.— CONCERNING HIS PARENTAGE AND HIS EARLY
YOUTH 27
II. — THE FIRST SEEDS OF A POLITICAL FAITH 82
III. — A STRANGER OF INFLUENCE TURNS UP 34
IV. — I EDUCATE MYSELF FOR CONTINGENCIES 39
V. — I BREAK WITH THE ARISTOCRACY 41
VI. — THE NATION AND THE BASTILLE. — VERDICT FOR
THE FORMER 44
VII. — CONCERNING THE BASTILLE 48
VIII. — THE DUKE D'ENGHIEN'S LAST DAY'S SPORT 51
IX. — I GO TO MAKE CAPTIVES AND AM TAKEN CAPTIVE MYSELF 56
X. — TOUCHING MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE 66
XI. — WHAT " BROTHERHOOD " MEANT 70
XII. — WHAT PASSED IN THE FOREST 75
XIII. — THE PEOPLE IN COUNCIL 79
XIV. — MY NEW PARISIAN FRIEND S3
XV. — I GO TO THE JACOBINS' CLUB 88
XVI. — PARIS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 93
XVII. — I ATTEND A MEETING AT THE CORDELIERS
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