The Despatches of Earl Gower, English Ambassador at Paris from June 1790 to August 1792: To which are Added the Despatches of Mr. Lindsay and Mr. Monro, and the Diary of Viscount Palmerston in France During July and August 1791, Now Published for the First Time |
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... body think it well to assist at the fête of the federation , which goes off pros- perously in the Champ de Mars . English histories of this period do not make us understand how near we were to a war with France in the autumn of 1790. In ...
... body think it well to assist at the fête of the federation , which goes off pros- perously in the Champ de Mars . English histories of this period do not make us understand how near we were to a war with France in the autumn of 1790. In ...
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... bodies of the department of the Seine , of the municipality of Paris , and the Jacobin club determine to sit in permanence ( June 1 ) . The king's guard is disbanded , the care of the Royal family is com- mitted to the National Guard ...
... bodies of the department of the Seine , of the municipality of Paris , and the Jacobin club determine to sit in permanence ( June 1 ) . The king's guard is disbanded , the care of the Royal family is com- mitted to the National Guard ...
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... body of men in whose honour the Marseillaise was composed by Rouget de L'Isle . It is hoped that they may leave immedi- ately for the camp at Soissons , which already contains nine thousand men . The acuteness of the crisis between the ...
... body of men in whose honour the Marseillaise was composed by Rouget de L'Isle . It is hoped that they may leave immedi- ately for the camp at Soissons , which already contains nine thousand men . The acuteness of the crisis between the ...
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... body servant was imprisoned for singing Grétry's air O Richard o mon roi . Monro tells us that the Assembly placard the streets with printed defences of their conduct ( p . 242 ) , and that even Roland the minister has taken this means ...
... body servant was imprisoned for singing Grétry's air O Richard o mon roi . Monro tells us that the Assembly placard the streets with printed defences of their conduct ( p . 242 ) , and that even Roland the minister has taken this means ...
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... body of men , consisting of those who were the most active at the taking of the Bastille , was admitted at the bar at the National Assembly when Mr le Camus read a Projet de Décret from the Committee of Pensions , which was to this ...
... body of men , consisting of those who were the most active at the taking of the Bastille , was admitted at the bar at the National Assembly when Mr le Camus read a Projet de Décret from the Committee of Pensions , which was to this ...
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