Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 27/46 Speech by Lasource: "Could not things be so arranged as to have a considerable force near enough to the capital to terrify and keep inactive the factions, the intriguers, the traitors who are plotting perfidious plans in its bosom, simultaneously with the maneuvers of outside enemies ?"] [Footnote 2517: 'Mallet du Pan, "Memoires." I.303.Letter of Malouet, June 29: "The king is calm and perfectly resigned. On the 19th he wrote to his confessor: "Come, sir; never have I had so much need of your consolations. I am done with men; I must now turn my eyes to heaven. Sad events are announced for to-morrow. I shall have courage.' "-- "Lettres de Coray au Protopsalte de Smyrne" (translated by M.de Queux de Saint-Hilaire,) 145, May 1st: "The court is in peril every moment. |