A HISTORICAL ROMANCE
OF
LOVE, LIBERTY AND LOYALTY.
BY ALEX. DUMAS.
Author of “The Queen’s Necklace,” “The Three Musketeers,”
“Balsamo the Magician,” “Monte Cristo,” “Taking the Bastile,”
“Chicot the Jester,” etc.
TRANSLATED FROM THE AUTHOR’S REVISED
LATEST EDITION.
BY
HENRY LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS
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J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
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Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1892, by A. E. Smith & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.
LOCKSMITH AND GUNSMITH.
THE French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, for the Capital, Paris.
But those who think, in such lulls of popular tempests, that all the mischief has blown over, make a mistake.
Behind the men who make the first onset, are those who planned it and who wait for the rush to be made and, then, while others are tried or satisfied, glide into the crowds to stir them up.