The French Revolution : a history . arangues; harping mainly on the religiousstring : True Priests maltreated, false Priests intruded,Protestants (once dragooned) now triumphing, thingssacred given to the dogs; and so produces, from thepious Mountaineer throat, rough growlings:— Shall wenot testify, then, ye brave hearts of the Cevennes;march to the rescue ? Holy Religion ; duty to God andthe King ?—St fait, si fait. Just so, just so, answer thebrave hearts always : Mais ily a de bien bonnes chosesdans la Revolution, But there are main good things in theRevolution too!—And so the matter, cajol
The French Revolution : a history . arangues; harping mainly on the religiousstring : True Priests maltreated, false Priests intruded,Protestants (once dragooned) now triumphing, thingssacred given to the dogs; and so produces, from thepious Mountaineer throat, rough growlings:— Shall wenot testify, then, ye brave hearts of the Cevennes;march to the rescue ? Holy Religion ; duty to God andthe King ?—St fait, si fait. Just so, just so, answer thebrave hearts always : Mais ily a de bien bonnes chosesdans la Revolution, But there are main good things in theRevolution too!—And so the matter, cajole as we may,will only turn on its axis, not stir from the spot, andremains theatrical merely. Nevertheless deepen your cajolery, harp quick andquicker, ye Royalist Seigneurs; with a dead-lift effortyou may bring it to that. In the month of June next,this Camp of fales will step forth as a theatricalitysuddenly become real; Two thousand strong, and withthe boast that it is Seventy thousand : most strange to Dampmartin, i. (fi 1792] BRIGANDS AND JALES 377 see ; with flags flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclama-tion, and DArtois Commission of civil war! Let someRebecqui, or other the like hot-clear Patriot; let some Lieutenant-Colonel Aubry, if Rebecqui is busy else-where, raise instantaneous National Guards, and disperseand dissolve it; and blow the Old Castle asunder,^ thatso, if possible, we hear of it no more! In the Months of February and March, it is recorded,the terror, especially of rural France, had risen even tothe transcendental pitch: not far from madness. InTown and Hamlet is rumour, of war, massacre: thatAustrians, Aristocrats, above all, that The Brigands areclose by. Men quit their houses and huts ; rush fugitive,shrieking, with wife and child, they know not a terror, the eye-witnesses say, never fell on aNation; nor shall again fall, even in Reigns of Terrorexpressly so-called. The Countries of the Loire, allthe Central and Southeast region
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