The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty
Translated by Henry Llewellyn Williams
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CHAPTER I. LOCKSMITH AND GUNSMITH.
LOCKSMITH AND GUNSMITH.
THE French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, for the Capital, Paris.
But those who think, in such lulls of popular tempests, that all the mischief has blown over, make a mistake.
Behind the men who make the first onset, are those who planned it and who wait for the rush to be made and, then, while others are tried or satisfied, glide into the crowds to stir them up.
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- The words
- Henry Llewellyn Williams's English translation, copied word for word.
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Project Gutenberg 42681
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license, in 2 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places
- "THE END" printed after the last chapter (a closing line, not the author's text)