Thomas Carlyle Philosophic Thinker Theologian Historian And Poet
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Truly, in the Chateau of Versailles all seems mystery ; in the town of Versailles, were w r e there, all is rumour, alarm, and indignation. So at Versailles. But at Paris, agitated Besenval, before retiring for the night, has stept over to old M. De Sombreuil, of the Hotel des Invalides, hard by. M. De Sombreuil has, what is a great secret, some eight-and-twenty thousand stands of muskets deposited in his cellars there ; but no trust in the temper of his Invalides. This day, for example, he sen...t twenty of the fellows down to unscrew those muskets, lest Sedition might De Launay of the Bastille. 2 \ 3 snatch at them ; but scarcely, in six hours, had the twenty unscrewed twenty gun-locks, or dogsheads (c/iiens) of locks, each Invalide his dogshead ! If ordered to fire they would, he imagines, turn their can- non against himself. Unfortunate old military gentle- men, it is your hour, not of glory ! Old Marquis de Launay, too, of the Bastille, has pulled up his draw- bridges long since, " and retired into his interior, " with sentries walking on his battlements, under the midnight sky, aloft over the glare of illuminated Paris, whom a National Patrol, passing that way, takes the liberty of firing at ; " seven shots towards twelve at night, " which do not take effect.
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