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During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
' One of the soldiers within wrote one day on the King's chamberdoor , and lhattoo on the inside : — " The guillotine is permanent , and ready forthe tyrant Louis XVI . " The King read the words , which 'I made an attempt to rub out , but his Majesty prevented me . ' One of the door-keepers of the Tower , whose name was Rocher , a man of a horrid figure , accoutred as a pioneer , with long whiskers , a black hairy capa huge sabreand a beltto which hung a bunch
, , , of great keys , carhe up to the door , when the King wanted to go out , btit did not open it till his Majesty was quite close , when pretending to search for the key among the many he had , which he rattled in a terrible manner , he designedly kept the Royal Family wailing , and
then drew the bolts with a great clatter . After doing this , he ran down before them , and fixing himself on one side ofthe last door , with a long pipe in his mouth , puffed the fumes of his tobacco at each ofthe Royal Family as they went out , and most at the Queen and Princesses . Sume National Guards , who were amused with these indignities , came about him , burst into fits of laughter at every puff of smokeand used the grossest language ; some of them went so far
, as to bring chairs from the guard-room to sit and enjoy the sight , obstructing the passage , of itself sufficiently narrow . < ' While the family were walking , the Engineers assembled to dance and sing : their songs were always revolutionary—sometimes also obscene . '
The recital ofthe barbarities exercised on the unfortunate King is sometimes , though but seldom , chequered with an instanGe of humanity on the part of those to whom the Convention committed the custody of the Royal Prisoners ; and whatalone can render it interesting is the amiable patience and resignation ofthe King . At no time was this resignation more conspicuous than after the sentence of death had been passed on him . We shall continue our extracts , taking up the narrative from the time at which he had written a letter to the Convention , requesting permission to see his family and to be attended hy a priest .
' Garat took the King ' s letter , and said he was going with it to the Convention . As he was leaving the room , his Majesty felt again in his pocket , took out his pocket-book , and , presenting a paper from it , said : " Sir , if the Convention agrees to my demand of the person I desire , here is his address . " lie then gave it to the Munici pal Officer . This address , wiitten in a different hand from the Kino- ' s , was ' ' - Monsieur Edgewoith de Firmont , No . 4 8 3 , Rue de Bacq . " The went back few
King a steps , and the Minister , with those who accompanied him , went away . ' His Majesty walked about his chamber for an instant . I remained standing against the door , my arms crossed , and as one deprived of all . feeling . The King came up to me , and bade me order his dinner . Shortly after two Municipal Officers called me into the eating-room , where they read me a resolution , importing , "that Louis should use neither knife nor fork at his meals , but that his Valet-de-Chambre
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
During The Confinement Of Louis Xvi. King Of France.
' One of the soldiers within wrote one day on the King's chamberdoor , and lhattoo on the inside : — " The guillotine is permanent , and ready forthe tyrant Louis XVI . " The King read the words , which 'I made an attempt to rub out , but his Majesty prevented me . ' One of the door-keepers of the Tower , whose name was Rocher , a man of a horrid figure , accoutred as a pioneer , with long whiskers , a black hairy capa huge sabreand a beltto which hung a bunch
, , , of great keys , carhe up to the door , when the King wanted to go out , btit did not open it till his Majesty was quite close , when pretending to search for the key among the many he had , which he rattled in a terrible manner , he designedly kept the Royal Family wailing , and
then drew the bolts with a great clatter . After doing this , he ran down before them , and fixing himself on one side ofthe last door , with a long pipe in his mouth , puffed the fumes of his tobacco at each ofthe Royal Family as they went out , and most at the Queen and Princesses . Sume National Guards , who were amused with these indignities , came about him , burst into fits of laughter at every puff of smokeand used the grossest language ; some of them went so far
, as to bring chairs from the guard-room to sit and enjoy the sight , obstructing the passage , of itself sufficiently narrow . < ' While the family were walking , the Engineers assembled to dance and sing : their songs were always revolutionary—sometimes also obscene . '
The recital ofthe barbarities exercised on the unfortunate King is sometimes , though but seldom , chequered with an instanGe of humanity on the part of those to whom the Convention committed the custody of the Royal Prisoners ; and whatalone can render it interesting is the amiable patience and resignation ofthe King . At no time was this resignation more conspicuous than after the sentence of death had been passed on him . We shall continue our extracts , taking up the narrative from the time at which he had written a letter to the Convention , requesting permission to see his family and to be attended hy a priest .
' Garat took the King ' s letter , and said he was going with it to the Convention . As he was leaving the room , his Majesty felt again in his pocket , took out his pocket-book , and , presenting a paper from it , said : " Sir , if the Convention agrees to my demand of the person I desire , here is his address . " lie then gave it to the Munici pal Officer . This address , wiitten in a different hand from the Kino- ' s , was ' ' - Monsieur Edgewoith de Firmont , No . 4 8 3 , Rue de Bacq . " The went back few
King a steps , and the Minister , with those who accompanied him , went away . ' His Majesty walked about his chamber for an instant . I remained standing against the door , my arms crossed , and as one deprived of all . feeling . The King came up to me , and bade me order his dinner . Shortly after two Municipal Officers called me into the eating-room , where they read me a resolution , importing , "that Louis should use neither knife nor fork at his meals , but that his Valet-de-Chambre