Robespierre's Rise and Fall (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: G. Lenotre
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ISBN: 9781331845652
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Excerpt from Robespierre's Rise and Fall With a shock of long, dishevelled hair, a wide nose, a thin-lipped mouth, and the self-confident expression of a vigilant overseer, so proud of his trade that, instead of donning his best coat and Sunday shirt, he has preferred to face the artist's pencil with his shabby old waistcoat hanging open above the swelling folds of a common, knotted cravat - it is thus that we see Duplay, the carpenter, in a drawing dating from the year II, when he was nearing the age of sixty. While still young he had moved to Paris from his native Gevaudan, and had married, about the year 1765, a respectable girl from Creteil near Charenton, called Marie-Franoise Vaugeois - a little older than himself, it is true, but the descendant of three generations of carpenters.2 After thirty years of orderly life and faithful work he had attained to a position of comfort. His marriage had brought him five children, of whom four were girls: the boy, who was christened Maurice, began his education in 1790 at the College d'Harcourt, where his father had studied before him. Duplay had, moreover, given a home to his brother's two orphaned boys, Jacques and Simon, whom he employed as workmen. All the inmates of this little establishment were thoroughly well drilled: the carpenter, worthy man, affected the severity of a stage father: his wife - a model to housekeepers - knew the value of time and allowed none to be frittered away; her four daughters, 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.