The Diary of a Citizen of Paris, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from The Diary of a Citizen of Paris, Vol. 1 of 2: During ´the Terror´ This does not pretend to be a history either of the Revolution or even of that period which, though so short, was yet so full of crime and anguish, and which will for ever bear the dread name of the Terror. The most that is attempted in these pages is to present to the world a phase of this lugubrious epoch in the form of a rough and simple sketch. I have read the greater part of the newspapers of the time, and have perused a considerable number of pamphlets; I have paid particular attention to bills and posters, and M. Gustave Bord was good enough to place at my disposal his collection of miscellaneous documents, made with great care and diligence. Living for months together amidst these witnesses of events long past, almost seemed to me that I had become their contemporary; that, like the ´awakened sleeper´ of poor Cazotte - one of the first victims of the Terror - I, too, walked in the streets of the Paris of ´93; that I frequented its public places; that, after a sitting of the Convention, I strolled into a cafe of the Maison Egalite; that I mingled with the crowd in the squares and the theaters, waiting my turn with the people in front of the bakers´-shops, following them sometimes with a heavy heart and swimming eyes as far as the Place de la Revolution or the barrier of the Trone Renverse, where the tumbrel came jolting along through midst of the hooting mob, and the heads fell to the cry of ´Vive la Republique!´ 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.
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