Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331390992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, Vol. 2 of 9: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution The Day of the loth*of August - Tocsin sounded early in the Morning - Swiss Guards, and relics of the Royal Party, te pair to the Tuļ¬leries - Mandat assassinated - Dejection of Louis, and energy of the Queen - King's Ministers appear at the Bar of the Assembly, stating the peril of_the Royal Fa mily, and requesting a Deputation might be sent to the Palace. _assembly pass to the Order of the day._louis and his Fa mily repair to the at the Tailleries. Swiss ordered to repair to the King's person - and are many of them shot and dispersed on their way to the Assembly. - At the close of the Day almost all of them are massacred. 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.
