The Royal Life Guard or, The Flight of The Royal Family
By Alexandre Dumas
Length8h 12m
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Synopsis: France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI. had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not commit perjury. The people were therefore on their guard against him, while they felt that his Queen, Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austria, was ever their foe. But the murders by the rabble had frightened all property holders and when the court bought Mirabeau, the popular orator, over to its cause by paying his debts and a monthly salary the majority of the better classes, who had not fled from France in terror, thought the Royal Family would yet regain their own. In point of fact, Mirabeau had obtained from the House of Representatives that the King should have the right to rule the army and direct it and propose war, which the Assembly would only have the sanction of. He would have obtained more in the reaction after the Taking of the Bastile but for an unknown hand having distributed full particulars of his purchase by the royalists in a broadside given away by thousands in the streets.
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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (59)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
17CHAPTER XVII.
2CHAPTER II.
18CHAPTER XVIII.
3CHAPTER III.
19CHAPTER XIX.
4CHAPTER IV.
20CHAPTER XX.
5CHAPTER V.
21CHAPTER XXI.
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6CHAPTER VI.
22CHAPTER XXII.
7CHAPTER VII.
23CHAPTER XXIII.
8CHAPTER VIII.
24CHAPTER XXIV.
9CHAPTER IX.
25CHAPTER XXV.
10CHAPTER X.
26CHAPTER XXVI.
11CHAPTER XI.
27CHAPTER XXVII.
12CHAPTER XII.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.
13CHAPTER XIII.
29CHAPTER XXIX.
14CHAPTER XIV.
30CHAPTER XXX.
15CHAPTER XV.
31CHAPTER XXXI.
16CHAPTER XVI.
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