Volume 3 (of 6) 92/118 The king departs about half-past eight .-- Cf. Madame Campan, "Memoires," and Moniteur, XIII. 378.] [Footnote 2686: "Revolution de Paris," number for Aug.18.On his way a sans-culotte steps out in front of the rows and tries to prevent the king from proceeding. The officer of the guard argues with him, upon which he extends his hand to the king, exclaiming: "Touch that hand, bastard, and you have shaken the hand of an honest man! But I have no intention that your bitch of a wife goes with you to the Assembly; we don't want that whore."-- "Louis XVI," says Prudhomme, "kept on his way without being upset by the with this noble impulse."-- I regard this as a masterpiece of Jacobin interpretation.] [Footnote 2687: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. |