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As one reads his book one hears the roll call of the old Oxford University 'special subject,' in which the student has to read, among other books, the memoirs of the Marquis de Ferrières, the correspondence between Mirabeau and the Comte de La Marck, the letters exchanged between Barnave and Queen Marie Antoinette, Morse Stephens's selections from the French revolutionary orators.
The Two French Revolutions Hampson, Norman 1989
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Here, as she had done once before, when I repeated some former observations of Barnave to her, Marie Antoinette somewhat lost her equanimity.
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Both the King and the Queen looked with suspicion upon Barnave, and with still more suspicion upon his politics.
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Necker with D'ORLEANS, on this occasion, added to the cold indifference with which Barnave in one of his speeches expressed himself concerning the shedding of human blood, certainly animated the factious assassins to methodical murder, and frustrated all the efforts of La Fayette to save these victims from the enraged populace, to whom both unfortunately fell
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Barnave, and even La Fayette are intimidated at the prevailing spirit of the Jacobins.
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Here, as she had done once before, when I repeated some former observations of Barnave to her, Marie Antoinette somewhat lost her equanimity.
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Assembly, and convey and receive letters from the Queen to the Princesse de Lamballe, to and from Barnave, Bertrand de Moleville, Alexandre de
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Duport, De Lameth, and Barnave well knew the troubles such a course must create.
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Both the King and the Queen looked with suspicion upon Barnave, and with still more suspicion upon his politics.
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She was about to order all those who preferred their uniforms to their employments to be discharged from the King's service; but my advice, coupled with that of Barnave, dissuaded her from executing so dangerous a threat.
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