Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266713296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Excerpt from The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol. 1: Ange Pitou Nothing need be added to the description given by Dumas of the painful excitement at Versailles, or of the king's journey to Paris and experience there. The scenes attending the summary ven geance wreaked upon Foulon and Berthier, who were the very incarnation of the old regime, are also portrayed with the careful attention to detail which is so striking a characteristic of the historical portions of the author's romances; and the same may be said of the assassination of Flesselles, and, by anticipation, of the events of the 5th of October in the streets of Paris and at the Hotel de Ville, when Stanislas Maillard assumed the leadership of the women the Menadic hosts and Lafayette was reluctantly compelled to lead the march of the thirty thousand upon Versailles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.