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  • No reply was made but to crack his skull, behead the trunk and carry the head aloft on a pike to the very Tribune where Boissy d'Anglas was presiding.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • The journey was a long one to the Rue Boissy d'Anglas, but tired as she was, Hadria did not wish it shorter.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • Volney, Gregoire, Emmery, Joucourt, Boissy d'Anglas, Fouche, and Roederer form another class, -- some of them regicides, others assassins and plunderers, but all intriguers whose machinations date from the beginning of the Revolution.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Volney, Gregoire, Emmery, Joucourt, Boissy d'Anglas, Fouche, and Roederer form another class, -- some of them regicides, others assassins and plunderers, but all intriguers whose machinations date from the beginning of the Revolution.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The barricade of the Insurgents at the end of the Rue Royale was taken last night by a movement in which the troops made their way from house to house, starting from the Rue Boissy d'Anglas, to the Rue Faubourg St. Honoré.

    The Insurrection in Paris

  • Billaud-Varenne, and Collot d'Herbois, threatened by Robespierre, joined with such Moderates as Boissy d'Anglas and Durand Maillane to bring about the coup d'état of 9 Thermidor (27 July, 1794).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Mountain, Isnard and Lanjuinais of the Gironde, Boissy d'Anglas of the

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Boissy d'Anglas, seized by the throat, returns with his cravat and shirt all in shreds.

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • -- Ibid.p. 65: "I have to state that, during the Convention, the butcher Legendre declared to Boissy d'Anglas, from whom I had it, that the plan was to kill the king."

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Boissy d'Anglas, who, calm, his hat on, heedless of threat and insult, protested in the name of the convention against this popular violence.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

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