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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. Ok reaching the door of the office in which the archives were kept, Gilbert perceived that a large heap of old papers was being burned. Unhappily, it is a general consequence that after having obtained a victory, the first desire the people have to gratify is that of destruction. The archives of the Bastile had been invaded. This office was a vast hall, heaped up with registry books and plans; the documents relating to all the prisoners who had been confined in the Bastile during the last hundred years were confusedly inclosed in it. The people tore these papers to pieces with senseless rage; it doubtless appeared to them that by destroying these registrations of imprisonment they were legally bestowing freedom on the prisoners. Gilbert went into the hall, seconded by Piton; he began to examine the register books which were still standing on the shelves; that of the running year was not to be found. The doctor, a man who was always so cool and calm, turned pale, and stamped with impatience. At that moment Piton canght sight of one of those heroio urchins who are always to be found in popular triumphs, who was carrying off on his head and running off with it toward the fire a volume similar in shape and binding to that which Dr. Gilbert had been examining. He ran after him, and, with his long legs, speedily overtook him. It was the register of the year 1789. The negotiation did not occupy much time. Piton was considered as one of the leaders of the conquerors, and explained to the boy that a prisoner had occasion to use that register, and the urchin yielded up his prey to him, consoling himself with the observation: "It is all the same to me; I can burn another." Pitou opened the book, turned over the leaves, hunted through it, and on the last page ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153859530
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115385953X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 399 gr


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