. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. For tendays after this repulse the Duke of Bruns-wick hesitated, and then he began to fallback towards the Rhine. This battle atValmy—it was little more than a cannonade—was one of the decisive battles in theworlds history. The Revolution was saved. The National Con-vention met onSeptember 21st, 1792,and immediately pro-claimed a trial and execu-tion of the king fol-lowed with a sort oflogical necessity uponthese things. He diedrather as a symbolthan as a man. Therewas nothing else to bedone with him ; poorman,
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. For tendays after this repulse the Duke of Bruns-wick hesitated, and then he began to fallback towards the Rhine. This battle atValmy—it was little more than a cannonade—was one of the decisive battles in theworlds history. The Revolution was saved. The National Con-vention met onSeptember 21st, 1792,and immediately pro-claimed a trial and execu-tion of the king fol-lowed with a sort oflogical necessity uponthese things. He diedrather as a symbolthan as a man. Therewas nothing else to bedone with him ; poorman, he cumbered theearth. France couldnot let him go tohearten the emigrants,could not keep himharmless at home ; hisexistence threatenedher. Marat had urgedthis trial relentlessly,yet with that acidclearness of his hewould not have theking charged with anyoffence committed be-fore he signed the thrust out to the mob at the gates. There constitution, because before then he was athe crowd jostled and fought to get a slash real monarch, super-legal, and so incapable. or thrust at a victim. The condemned werestabbed, hacked, and beaten to death, theirheads hewn off, stuck on pikes, and carriedabout the town, their torn bodies thrustaside. Among others, the Princesse de Lam-balle, whom the king and queen had leftbehind in the Tuileries, perished. Her headwas carried on a pike to the Temple for thequeen to see. In the queens cell were two NationalGuards. One would have had her look outand see this grisly sight. The other, in pity,would not let her do so. Even as this red tragedy was going on inParis, the French general Dumouriez, whohad rushed an army from Flanders into theforests of the Argonne, was holding up the of being illegal. Nor would Marat permitattacks upon the kings counsel. . Through-out Marat played a bitter and yet often a justpart; he was a great man, a fine intelligence,in a skin of fire ; WTung with that organichate in the blood that is not a product of themind but
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