Louis Xvii And Other Papers
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There was no unhappier prisoner in the Luxembourg than Desmoulins ; he carried his lamenta- tions to the foot of the scaffold. Danton went to his death, as he himself predicted, with a light heart and a smile on his lips — he knew that Robespierre would follow before long.
Vincent, secretary of the minister Bouchotte, was one of the violent types of Jacobin, simian and beast of prey at the same time. When he found himself at the Luxembourg among those privileged beings who had figured at Versai...lles, he spent his time in reviling them ; at the sight of a foreigner he grew rabid. One or two 56 THE LUXEMBOURG PRISON English and Spanish prisoners threw him into a frenzy. The perfidious compatriots of Pitt came in for a large share of abuse. He attempted to assault some of the weaker prisoners, and the gens d'armes restrained Vincent with difiiculty. His wife received permission to visit him, and one day as he lay in bed and she was trying to soothe him by talking of family matters, and of those likely to visit the guillotine, he sprang out of bed, seized a raw leg of mutton which hung at a window, cut off a large slice, and devoured it like a famished wolf, snarling, "Would I could thus eat the flesh of my enemies !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There was no unhappier prisoner in the Luxembourg than Desmoulins ; he carried his lamenta- tions to the foot of the scaffold. Danton went to his death, as he himself predicted, with a light heart and a smile on his lips — he knew that Robespierre would follow before long.
Vincent, secretary of the minister Bouchotte, was one of the violent types of Jacobin, simian and beast of prey at the same time. When he found himself at the Luxembourg among those privileged beings who had figured at Versai...lles, he spent his time in reviling them ; at the sight of a foreigner he grew rabid. One or two 56 THE LUXEMBOURG PRISON English and Spanish prisoners threw him into a frenzy. The perfidious compatriots of Pitt came in for a large share of abuse. He attempted to assault some of the weaker prisoners, and the gens d'armes restrained Vincent with difiiculty. His wife received permission to visit him, and one day as he lay in bed and she was trying to soothe him by talking of family matters, and of those likely to visit the guillotine, he sprang out of bed, seized a raw leg of mutton which hung at a window, cut off a large slice, and devoured it like a famished wolf, snarling, "Would I could thus eat the flesh of my enemies !
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