This was one of the great themes of French and especially English counter-revolutionary literature: the Revolution of France was not only this great movement for the liberation of peoples, of which the fine spirits of 1789 spoke, because, behind the chatter of a few sophists, First and foremost, to make the coup de force, we found a bunch of drunken blood drinkers, the "scoundrel" that Taine evokes with contempt, recruited from the worst cabarets in the capital, watered with liquors by the brewer Santerre for go and storm the Palace of Versailles or that of the Tuileries.
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Those who beheaded the brave governor of the Bastille, M. de Launay, on July 14, 1789, those who, like “Jourdan Coupe-Tête”, beheaded the queen's bodyguards in the marble court of Versailles on October 6 1789, in the morning, before the (late) arrival of La Fayette, the famous "General Morphée", those who brandished on a pike the head of the poor Duchess of Lamballe, making
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