THE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FIRST. A WEEK has passed since the events related. Everybody was saying: The Revolution is finished; the King is delivered from Versailles, and his courtiers and evil counsell
THE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FIRST. A WEEK has passed since the events related. Everybody was saying: The Revolution is finished; the King is delivered from Versailles, and his courtiers and evil counsell
UNDER THE WINDOW. O N the surface all was calm and almost smiling on the Billet Farm. As before, Billet, on his strong…
THE FIRST GUILLOTINE. O N Christmas Eve, a party was given at the Princess Lamballe’s, which the Queen’s presiding ove…
THE FRIEND OF THE FALLEN. A T eight that same evening, a workingman, holding his hand to his waistcoat pocket as thoug…
GAMAIN PROVES HE IS THE MASTER. T HE reader will not be much surprised, after the permission Lafayette gave for the Ki…
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD I T was nearly midnight when a man hesitatingly walked up to the iron gateway of St. Jean’s buryin…
HAPPY FAMILY. O N the evening of this same day, about five, a scene passed in the third and top flat of a dirty old tu…
THE ROYAL LOCKSMITH. A S the King had undertaken a very important piece of locksmith work, he sent his valet Hue to be…
THE SMILE AND THE NOD. A S Cagliostro had said and Mirabeau surmised, the King had upset the scheme. Without much regr…
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