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During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
' Another Commissioner , whose name was Le Cierc , "a physician being in the Queen ' s chamber when 1 was teaching the Prince to wiite , -interrupted him to pronounce a discourse on the Republican education , which it was necessary to give the Dauphin , and he wanted to change the books he was studying for works of the most Ei-evolutionary nature . ' A fourth was present , when the Queen was reading to her
children , from a volume ofthe History of France , at the period when the constable de Bourbon took up arms against France , He pretended the Queen -meant by this to instil into the mind of her son ideas of vengeance against his country , and laid a formal information against it before the Council : which I made known to her Majesty , who afterwards selected subjects that could not be taken hold of to calumniate her intentions .
' A man named Simon , shoemaker and Municipal Officer , was one of the six Commissioners appointed to inspect the works and-expences at the Temple . He was the only one , who , under pretence of attending rigidly to his duty , never quitted the Tower . This man , whenever he appeared in the presence of the Royal Family , always treated them with the wildest insolence ; and would frequently say to meso near the King as to be heard by him : — ' Ciery , ask Capet if
, he wants any thing , that I may not have the trouble of coming-up twice . ' I was obliged to answer that he wanted nothing . This is the same Simon to whose care the young Louis was afterwards consigned , and who by a systematic barbarity . prolonged the tormen fs of that amiable and unfortunate child : there is also great reason to believe that he was the instrument made use of to shorten his daj- ' s .
' In teaching theyoung Prince to cypher , I had made a multiplication table , according to directions given by the Queen , which a Municipal Officer pretended was a means she took to teach her son . how to correspond by secret signs , , and he was obliged to give up the stud y of arithmetic . ' The same thing had happened with respect to the tapestry , which the Queen and Madame Elizabeth had worked on their being first
confined . Having finished some chair backs , the Queen ordered me to send them to the Duchess de'Serent ; but the Municipal Officers , whose leave I asked , thought that the designs contained hieroglyphics for the purpose of corresponding , and , inconsequence , obtained an : > rder , by which it was forbidden to suffer the works of the Queen and Princesses to be sent out ofthe Tower .
' There were some of the Municipal Officers , who never spoke of any of the Royal Family without the addition of the most insulting epithets . . . One of them , named Tuilot , one day said in my hearing : — " If no executioner could be found to guillotine this d d family , I would guiil tine them myself . ' ; 'When the King and family went to walk , they had to pass by a dumber of sentriesof whicheven at that petiodthere w-ere several
, , , stationed within the small Tower . The soldiers on ditty presented their arms to the Municipal Officers and Commanders of the Legions ; but when the King approached them , they grounded their firelocks , or clubbed them ludicrously . VOL . XI . M
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
' Another Commissioner , whose name was Le Cierc , "a physician being in the Queen ' s chamber when 1 was teaching the Prince to wiite , -interrupted him to pronounce a discourse on the Republican education , which it was necessary to give the Dauphin , and he wanted to change the books he was studying for works of the most Ei-evolutionary nature . ' A fourth was present , when the Queen was reading to her
children , from a volume ofthe History of France , at the period when the constable de Bourbon took up arms against France , He pretended the Queen -meant by this to instil into the mind of her son ideas of vengeance against his country , and laid a formal information against it before the Council : which I made known to her Majesty , who afterwards selected subjects that could not be taken hold of to calumniate her intentions .
' A man named Simon , shoemaker and Municipal Officer , was one of the six Commissioners appointed to inspect the works and-expences at the Temple . He was the only one , who , under pretence of attending rigidly to his duty , never quitted the Tower . This man , whenever he appeared in the presence of the Royal Family , always treated them with the wildest insolence ; and would frequently say to meso near the King as to be heard by him : — ' Ciery , ask Capet if
, he wants any thing , that I may not have the trouble of coming-up twice . ' I was obliged to answer that he wanted nothing . This is the same Simon to whose care the young Louis was afterwards consigned , and who by a systematic barbarity . prolonged the tormen fs of that amiable and unfortunate child : there is also great reason to believe that he was the instrument made use of to shorten his daj- ' s .
' In teaching theyoung Prince to cypher , I had made a multiplication table , according to directions given by the Queen , which a Municipal Officer pretended was a means she took to teach her son . how to correspond by secret signs , , and he was obliged to give up the stud y of arithmetic . ' The same thing had happened with respect to the tapestry , which the Queen and Madame Elizabeth had worked on their being first
confined . Having finished some chair backs , the Queen ordered me to send them to the Duchess de'Serent ; but the Municipal Officers , whose leave I asked , thought that the designs contained hieroglyphics for the purpose of corresponding , and , inconsequence , obtained an : > rder , by which it was forbidden to suffer the works of the Queen and Princesses to be sent out ofthe Tower .
' There were some of the Municipal Officers , who never spoke of any of the Royal Family without the addition of the most insulting epithets . . . One of them , named Tuilot , one day said in my hearing : — " If no executioner could be found to guillotine this d d family , I would guiil tine them myself . ' ; 'When the King and family went to walk , they had to pass by a dumber of sentriesof whicheven at that petiodthere w-ere several
, , , stationed within the small Tower . The soldiers on ditty presented their arms to the Municipal Officers and Commanders of the Legions ; but when the King approached them , they grounded their firelocks , or clubbed them ludicrously . VOL . XI . M