Legends of the Bastille

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Frantz Funck-Brentano. Legends of the Bastille

Legends of the Bastille

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

LEGENDS OF THE BASTILLE

CHAPTER I. THE ARCHIVES

CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF THE BASTILLE

CHAPTER III. LIFE IN THE BASTILLE

CHAPTER IV. THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

1. The Documents

2. The Legend

3. Mattioli

CHAPTER V. MEN OF LETTERS IN THE BASTILLE

Voltaire

La Beaumelle

The Abbé Morellet

Marmontel

Linguet

Diderot

The Marquis de Mirabeau

CHAPTER VI. LATUDE

CHAPTER VII. THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY

INDEX

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Frantz Funck-Brentano

Published by Good Press, 2021

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We ask ourselves, “Was he a fool? or was he a traitor?” He was a fool, for he thought he had “three hundred thousand men” in front of him, took every excited person for a rebel, and did not understand that out of every hundred Parisians there were ninety who were relying on him to bring the mutineers to reason.

He had no confidence in his troops, he said.

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