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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... prison or guillotined . The veil did not lift until the summer of 1794 , when an unknown but well - informed correspondent in Switzerland was able to send to Lord Elgin some remarkable accounts of the political , military , and social ...
... prison or guillotined . The veil did not lift until the summer of 1794 , when an unknown but well - informed correspondent in Switzerland was able to send to Lord Elgin some remarkable accounts of the political , military , and social ...
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... prison . This might have been prevented by Mirabeau had he been alive , but he had died a fortnight before ( April 8 ) . His funeral was followed by 28,000 people and three - fourths of the population of Paris were present as spec ...
... prison . This might have been prevented by Mirabeau had he been alive , but he had died a fortnight before ( April 8 ) . His funeral was followed by 28,000 people and three - fourths of the population of Paris were present as spec ...
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... prison as a hostage , and Mirabeau was himself arrested at Castelnaudary and the streamers found in his luggage . Mirabeau was set at liberty by order of the assembly . On June 27 he explained that he had gone to Perpignan to quell a ...
... prison as a hostage , and Mirabeau was himself arrested at Castelnaudary and the streamers found in his luggage . Mirabeau was set at liberty by order of the assembly . On June 27 he explained that he had gone to Perpignan to quell a ...
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... prison . I enclose a letter of Mr Guignard , ci - devant Comte de St Priest , to the President of the National Assembly , which he sent to me for that purpose : your Grace will find by it that he has been impeached by the Comités de ...
... prison . I enclose a letter of Mr Guignard , ci - devant Comte de St Priest , to the President of the National Assembly , which he sent to me for that purpose : your Grace will find by it that he has been impeached by the Comités de ...
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... he is a prisoner in the Châtelet , and , during his confinement in that prison he has contrived to engrave , without detection , no less than ten copper - plates for taking them off . PARIS , December 10th , 1790 . It has been.
... he is a prisoner in the Châtelet , and , during his confinement in that prison he has contrived to engrave , without detection , no less than ten copper - plates for taking them off . PARIS , December 10th , 1790 . It has been.
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