Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
such were only a second edi-tion of Girondists, badly executed. Even the men who so suddenly and without preparation had attained to governmental power were rendered anxious by feeling the helplessness, bordering on insecurity,of their position in consequence of the humiliating dependence inwhich they were held by the victorious proletariat. On the 25th,incited by Louis Blanc, the mob extorted from the provisional gov-ernment a dangerous decree, which, in order to secure the subsistenceof the laborers by their toil, recognized the necessity of associationon their part, and assigned to them a million francs saved on the THE IRÜVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. 311 civil list. Hie special (lauster lay in the fact that within the c^oveni-ment itself the Modeiates were kept under ))icssiir( continnally bytheir own colleagues, LtMlni-Kollin, l-locon, and Louis lilanc, whohad. the proletariat at command. In Lamartine ( V\^^. Go), however,the government possessed a head whose name was snllicient to in-
Text Appearing After Image:
Fio. 65.— Lamartine. Reduced faksimile of the enegraving by Hopwood ; original painting by Dupunt, 18;J7. spire a degree of confidence; and for whatever sins the vain poetmay have committed in these last days, he now made repiration bythe courage with which he confronted the unbridled masses of thepopulace. Would to God, he cried to a bainl that were demand-ing his head, that every one of you might have it on his shouldei-s, 312 THE DOWXFALL OF THE MONARCHY OF JULY. then would you be more reasonable! Also to the demand for thered flag, with which the faubourgs came forward, he found the rightword in reply: Your red flag has only made the circuit of theChamp de Mare, and is steeped in the blood of citizens; but thetricolor has been borne by French valor throughout all Europe, andwith it one-half the glory of France would sink into oblivion ! Therulers, however, had to consent to wear a red rosette in their button-holes; for to appease the sovereign people remained the first andmost urg

Note About Images