[The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe French Revolution CHAPTER 1 6/7
But the outer courts, and Paris and France, catch the glad sound, and repeat it; shall repeat it, and re-echo and reverberate it, till it grow a deafening peal.
Clearly enough here is no registering to be thought of. The pious Proverb says, 'There are remedies for all things but death.' When a Parlement refuses registering, the remedy, by long practice, has become familiar to the simplest: a Bed of Justice.
One complete month this Parlement has spent in mere idle jargoning, and sound and fury; the Timbre Edict not registered, or like to be; the Subvention not yet so much as spoken of.
On the 6th of August let the whole refractory Body roll out, in wheeled vehicles, as far as the King's Chateau of Versailles; there shall the King, holding his Bed of Justice, order them, by his own royal lips, to register.
They may remonstrate, in an under tone; but they must obey, lest a worse unknown thing befall them. It is done: the Parlement has rolled out, on royal summons; has heard the express royal order to register.
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