Today's installment concludes Revolutionaries Storm Bastille,our selection from The Life of Napoleon Bounoparte by William Hazlitt published in
Mob Assaults the Bastille
For several hours, during a murderous discharge of musketry, and amid heaps of the wounded and dying, the Paris mob attacked.Continuing
Paris Mob Assembles
Early in the morning the people assembled in large bodies at the Hôtel de Ville; the tocsin sounded from all the churches; the drums beat to summon
King of France Dismisses Prime Minister
He calmly finished his dinner, without saying a word of the order he had received, and immediately after got into his carriage with his wife and took
Assembly Alarms King
"Go tell your master," cried Mirabeau, "that we are here by order of the people; and that we shall not retire but at the point of the
First Act of the French Revolution
This first independent and spirited step on the part of the commons produced a reaction on the part of the Court.Continuing Revolutionaries Storm
Revolutionaries Storm Bastille
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: States-General Meets.IntroductionIn the scenes of blood and terror
The Coronation Ceremony
Today's installment concludes The Coronation of Napoleon,our selection from Life of Napoleon Buonaparte by William Hazlitt published in 1830.If
Napoleon Meets the Pope
If Pope Pius VII represented the decay of ancient superstition, Bonaparte represented the high and palmy state of modern opinion; yet not insulting