The days of the Directoire (1910) (14793110573)

Identifier: daysofdirectoire00alli (find matches)
Title: The days of the Directoire
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard) Abbott, John Colby
Subjects: Costume -- France France -- History Directory, 1795-1799 France -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, New York : John Lane



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oy thislast sweet illusion, appeared to listen also, with thepious desire of hearing what could not possibly beheard. After a few minutes of attention, the child againstarted, his eyes sparkled, and he cried out, in intenserapture, From amongst all the voices, I have dis-tinguished that of my mother ! Since the execution of Madame Elisabeth, the Prin-cess Royale had been utterly alone, and now by thedeath of the little Dauphin she was left the sole sur-vivor of the pathetic family group that had inhabitedthe grim apartments in the Tour du Temple for somany weary months. The rigour, however, of herconfinement had greatly relaxed since the revolutionof 9 Thermidor, and still more so since the accessionof the Directoire to power. Above all, she was nowfreely permitted the privilege of taking exercise forsome hours every day in the garden attached to theprison. But she was never once allowed to see the dyingboy, who was separated from her only by a fewstone walls and a few yards of space.
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