[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER IX 9/65
It was accepted: and the Plush Guard has been established in place of the Swiss, who waited on former sovereigns." "The Irish Brigade quartered in the Tuileries are to enter our service. Their commander states that they took every one of the forts round Paris, and having blown them up, were proceeding to release Louis XVII., when they found that august monarch, happily, free.
News of their glorious victory has been conveyed to Dublin, to his Majesty the King of the Irish.
It will be a new laurel to add to his green crown!" And thus have we brought to a conclusion our history of the great French Revolution of 1884.
It records the actions of great and various characters; the deeds of various valor; it narrates wonderful reverses of fortune; it affords the moralist scope for his philosophy; perhaps it gives amusement to the merely idle reader.
Nor must the latter imagine, because there is not a precise moral affixed to the story, that its tendency is otherwise than good.
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