"Paris, like the rest of France, calls aloud for liberty… Patriotism spreads, day by day, with the devouring rapidity of a great conflagration. The young take fire; the old men cease, for the first time, to regret the past; they blush for it. The people bind themselves by oaths in a solemn engagement to die for their country."
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"Yesterday was one of the brightest days of my life. One must needs have been a very bad citizen not to take part in the festivity of that sacred day. I believe that if I had only come from Guise to Paris to see this procession of the three orders and the opening of our States-General, I should not regret this pilgrimage. I only had one cause for discontent, and that lay in not seeing you amongst our deputies. One of my comrades has been more fortunate than I, this is Robespierre, deputy for Arras. He had the sense to plead in his own province… . One noticed yesterday the duke d’Orleans in his rank as deputy to the bailliage of Crespy, and Count Mirabeau with the dress of the Third Estate and a sword… . The costume of the nobility, exactly the same as that of the dukes and peers, was magnificent… . How proudly our deputies carried themselves ! they had caput intra nubes… . The abbe de Bourville, one of my friends, took me to dine with his uncle, Chevalier M …, Major-General. It was there that I noticed how the bulk of the nobihty were irritated against M. Necker. They cried by thousands and thousands : ’ Long live the
King ! Long live the Third Estate ! ’ There were some cheers for the duke d’Orleans, none for the cloth of gold, nor for the cassocks. The face of the King was alight with joy. It is four years sincehe heard the cry : ’ Long live the King ! ’ …
I wrote yesterday to Mirabeau to try, if possible, to be put on the staff of the famous gazette which will describe all that takes place at the States-General. Thousands are subscribing to it here, and it will bring the author 100,000 crowns, they say. Shall I subscribe for you ?"
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"I have been told that you had burned Free France. All physics books of Solomon were burned by King Hezekiah in person, on the steps of the Temple, lest they were to deter the people of their attention to the holy writing, and this should comfort the authors whose brochures are burned by the king’s men, at the foot of the grand staircase. For me, I thank you for these honorable flames. The fire which consumed the victim showed that she was agreeable to the gods; the fire that consumes a book shows that it never displeased men. This flame that rises around its leaves is like the halo that crowns an author. Accept therefore, my gratitude, the honor of this second edition, and may you, my dear Lanterne, receive the same favor!"
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