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Article HONORE GABRIEL RIQUETTI, COUNT DE MIRABEAU; ← Page 2 of 3 →
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Honore Gabriel Riquetti, Count De Mirabeau;
ment of one of the domestics , who had but just time to inform the Marquis of his danger , from which he happily escaped . This trait characterizes the young but unnatural Mirabeau , and though he certainly was a man whose talents were above mediocrity ? this undoubtedly will for ever disgrace him , as having been the author of such an infamous attempt .
To remove him from the presence of the family , and to prevent crimes that must inevitably bring scandal and disgrace on a name so respectable , the Marquis obtained a lettre-de-cachet , and shut up Riquetti to contemplate and reflect , for fourteen months , m the castle of Geole ; his father released him from his confinement with the rational but delusive hope that he had made suitable reflections
on his past conduct ; but this act of parental tenderness , gave him full power to exhibit his subsequent character , on-the great stage of the world . How well he performed his task we shall presently see . Scarcely was he released from confinement , than he published the most scandalous libels against his fatherwherein is the most complete
, system of declamatory rage , malice , and fury ; and which tracts he never in his life-time denied . If he did not succeed in the public ridicule of his father , yet he destroyed , what was of more importance , the harmony which subsisted between the Marquis and his
wife . ... This French Demosthenes gained over his mother to his cause , by the calumnies and insinuations which he raised against the character of his father , and , which had too much force on the mind of this affectionate , but pliant parent , who fell into the snare which he had laid for her . The peaceable and respectable occupation of a loyed in the researches of the human mindand
conman , emp , templating the wonders of nature and art , could scarcely be grievous enough to justify a . final separation between man and wife . This is all that could be charged to the account of the Marquis her husband . But to insure her own , and attempt his dishonour , this unfortunate lady is said ( but we hope without foundation ) to have ielded herself up to those irregularities which
y are truly unbecoming the modesty of her sex , and the dignity of her family : it was even reported , that her favors were conferred on the most inferior classes .. Riquetti , although absent from his parental residence , did not failby his councils and communications , to heighten that eminence , from which his mother was afterwards preciitated : he aided the
p domestic broils , nor did he leave her until he had completed her misfortunes . The Marquis foreseeing the impossibility of retrieving the attachment of his wife , abandoned her to the decision of the law , which destined a convent for her future residence ; in which it
would have been well if she had continued . The world is not unacquainted with the memoirs in which Riquetti endeavoured to disturb the peace and embitter the days of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Honore Gabriel Riquetti, Count De Mirabeau;
ment of one of the domestics , who had but just time to inform the Marquis of his danger , from which he happily escaped . This trait characterizes the young but unnatural Mirabeau , and though he certainly was a man whose talents were above mediocrity ? this undoubtedly will for ever disgrace him , as having been the author of such an infamous attempt .
To remove him from the presence of the family , and to prevent crimes that must inevitably bring scandal and disgrace on a name so respectable , the Marquis obtained a lettre-de-cachet , and shut up Riquetti to contemplate and reflect , for fourteen months , m the castle of Geole ; his father released him from his confinement with the rational but delusive hope that he had made suitable reflections
on his past conduct ; but this act of parental tenderness , gave him full power to exhibit his subsequent character , on-the great stage of the world . How well he performed his task we shall presently see . Scarcely was he released from confinement , than he published the most scandalous libels against his fatherwherein is the most complete
, system of declamatory rage , malice , and fury ; and which tracts he never in his life-time denied . If he did not succeed in the public ridicule of his father , yet he destroyed , what was of more importance , the harmony which subsisted between the Marquis and his
wife . ... This French Demosthenes gained over his mother to his cause , by the calumnies and insinuations which he raised against the character of his father , and , which had too much force on the mind of this affectionate , but pliant parent , who fell into the snare which he had laid for her . The peaceable and respectable occupation of a loyed in the researches of the human mindand
conman , emp , templating the wonders of nature and art , could scarcely be grievous enough to justify a . final separation between man and wife . This is all that could be charged to the account of the Marquis her husband . But to insure her own , and attempt his dishonour , this unfortunate lady is said ( but we hope without foundation ) to have ielded herself up to those irregularities which
y are truly unbecoming the modesty of her sex , and the dignity of her family : it was even reported , that her favors were conferred on the most inferior classes .. Riquetti , although absent from his parental residence , did not failby his councils and communications , to heighten that eminence , from which his mother was afterwards preciitated : he aided the
p domestic broils , nor did he leave her until he had completed her misfortunes . The Marquis foreseeing the impossibility of retrieving the attachment of his wife , abandoned her to the decision of the law , which destined a convent for her future residence ; in which it
would have been well if she had continued . The world is not unacquainted with the memoirs in which Riquetti endeavoured to disturb the peace and embitter the days of