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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e party of the Assembly triumphed for a moment, Louiswas once more released, and was declared head of a constitutional monarchy.A new legislature was regularly elected. But when Louis vetoed some extrememeasures, the mob again threatened him. This was in the summer of 1792,and events now hurried rapidly. Lafayette, being too loyal, was deserted byhis soldiers, and had to flee to the Austrian troops, who imprisoned him as atraitor to the King he had striven so hard to save. Prussia declared war against France in Louiss defense; and the Paris rab-ble, suspecting, as was indeed true, that the King had himself encouragedPrussias attitude, made the last of its many assaults upon the royal palace.Three hundred of the Kings Swiss guards were cut to pieces, and their deadbodies hacked and hewed by the delirious mob. Louis and his family wereplaced in prison. Suspected traitors, aristocrats, to the number of nearly athousand, had been confined in the Paris jails. The mob took possession of the
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THE FLIGHT OF LOUIS XVI. CHECKED AT VARENNES France—Execution of Louis XVI 909 prisons under the order of Danton, the Minister of Justice, and murdered all theprisoners with a mere pretence of trial. These were the notorious Septembermassacres. Austria, in the name of its daughter, Marie Antoinette, had joined Prussiain attacking France. As the foes advanced, the French patriots, madly in lovewith their new Liberty, rose as one man to oppose them. A young artil-lery officer, Roget de LIsle, had written a patriotic song, the Marseillaise.He sang it to a gathering of friends, and they, thrilled by its stirring strains,spread the music everywhere through France. It became the national hymn,and the people, chanting it in every village, gathered against the enemies ofFrance and Liberty. A new assembly, the National Convention, was summoned, and its firstact was to declare the land a republic (September 21, 1792). Then the Kingwas tried as a traitor. He was summoned before the Convention,

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