Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ofthe people, threeyears ago, resumedtheir uniform andarms and joinedtheir fellow - citi-zens. The soldiersabsolved themselvesfrom their oath byfiring once, andthen surrenderedtheir arms, andmight be seen em-bracing theirfriends among thecrowd. The nameof Lafayette re-sounded from everyquarter, and all arenow placing theirhopes on some pro-visional arrange-ment under thesanction of a manso revered. Thus stood matters yesterday even-ing. . August the J/th, dear Sister,—My last letter, Ifear, was too confused to give yo
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . ofthe people, threeyears ago, resumedtheir uniform andarms and joinedtheir fellow - citi-zens. The soldiersabsolved themselvesfrom their oath byfiring once, andthen surrenderedtheir arms, andmight be seen em-bracing theirfriends among thecrowd. The nameof Lafayette re-sounded from everyquarter, and all arenow placing theirhopes on some pro-visional arrange-ment under thesanction of a manso revered. Thus stood matters yesterday even-ing. . August the J/th, dear Sister,—My last letter, Ifear, was too confused to give you muchidea of the wonderful events of whichI gave you only a few hints; for, shut upas I was, it was impossible to do morethan tell you what was passing imme-diately around me, and what I heard andsaw myself. Since that time things haveassumed a more decided shape, and I cannow speak with certainty of what wasthen only rumor. I begin already to re-pent of the alarm which peeped out inmy last letter, but I have promised youall my thoughts, and I dare say there. Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Palais Royal during the evening of july 29, 1830 After a painting by Horace Vernet were other people a little frightened aswell as myself. . There are many thingswhich begin to augur a change with re-gard to the ancient superstition whichveils itself under the venerable name ofreligion, and the suspicion with whichits ministers are regarded is no smallproof of it. The public indignation hasbeen strongly marked against the Arch-bishop and some of the priests, who aresupposed to have been the counsellors ofthe King in some of the last mad actsof his reign. The archiepiscopal palacewas roughly handled during the threememorable days of July, being ransackedand completely disfurnished. Costly andsplendid furniture of every description Attack on, the Hotel de Ville was thrown into the Seine, nor was itpermitted to save any article, no matterhow rich and valuable. Many of thearchives of th
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