[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 2 (of 6) CHAPTER II 41/70
Then, placing the head on the end of a three-pronged pitchfork, and accompanied by over two hundred armed men, "not counting the mob," he marches along, and, in the Rue Saint-Honore, he has two inscriptions attached to the head, to indicate without mistake whose head it is .-- They grow merry over it: after filing alongside of the Palais-Royal, the procession arrives at the Pont-Neuf, where, before the statue of Henry IV., they bow the head three times, saying, "Salute thy master!"-- This is the last joke: it is to be found in every triumph, and inside the butcher, we find the rogue. VII .-- Murders of Foulon and Berthier. Meanwhile, at the Palais-Royal, other buffoons, who with the levity of gossips sport with lives as freely as with words, have drawn u.
During the night between the 13th and 14th of July, a list of proscriptions, copies of which are hawked about.
Care is taken to address one of them to each of the persons designated, the Comte d'Artois, Marshal de Broglie, the Prince de Lambesc, Baron de Bezenval, MM.
de Breteuil, Foulon, Berthier, Maury, d'Espremenil, Lefevre d'Amecourt, and others besides.[1248] A reward is promised to whoever will bring their heads to the Cafe de Caveau.
Here are names for the unchained multitude; all that now is necessary is that some band should encounter a man who is denounced; he will go as far as the lamppost at the street corner, but not beyond it .-- Throughout the day of the 14th, this improvised tribunal holds a permanent session, and follows up its decisions with its actions.
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