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Title: The life and letters of Madame Élisabeth de France
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Elisabeth, Princess of France, 1764-1794 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott Cléry, M., 1759-1809
Subjects: Angoulême, Marie Thérèse Charlotte, duchess d', 1778-1851
Publisher: Boston, Hardy, Pratt & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ueens room. I went down to dinewith Tison and his wife, who were employed as servants inthe Tower. We were hardly seated before a head at the end of a pikewas presented at the window. Tisons wife screamed loudly;the murderers thought it was the queens voice, and we heardthe frantic laughs of those barbarians. Thinking that HerMajesty was still at table, they had raised the victims headso that it could not escape her sight; it was that of the Prin-cesse de Lamballe. Though bloody, it was not disfigured;her blond hair, still curling, floated around the pike. I ran at once to the king. Terror had so changed my facethat the queen noticed it; it was important to hide the causefrom her; I meant to warn the king and Madame Elisabeth;but the two municipals were present. Why do you not goto dinner ? asked the queen. Madame, I answered, I donot feel well. At that moment a municipal entered theroom and spoke mysteriously with his colleagues. Theking asked if his family were in safety. There is a
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/4^& ;^2^?<e-ti<i^<e <;^ ,=,^<^:S^;^2yOh(Z-i 1792) THE CAPTIVITY OF LOUIS XVI. 123 rumour going, they replied, that you and your family areno longer in the Tower; the people want you to appear atthe window, but we shall not allow it; the people ought toshow more confidence in their magistrates. The cries and shouts outside increased; we heard, verydistinctly, insults addressed to the queen. Another munici-pal came in, followed by four men deputed by the people tomake sure that the king and his family were in the Tower.One of them, in the uniform of the National Guard, wearingtwo epaulets and carrying a large sabre, insisted that the pris-oners should show themselves at the window. The munici-pals opposed it. The man then said to the queen in thecoarsest tone: They want to prevent your seeing theLambaUes head, which has been brought here to show youhow the people avenge themselves on tyrants; I advise youto appear. The queen fainted; I ran to her support

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