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" Le canon vient de resoner : Guerrers, soyez prets a marcher.
Citoyens et soldats
En volant aux combats,
Dans la carmagnole: Vive le son, vive le son,
Dansons la carmagnole Vive le son du canon!"
The same authority says the " bloody Carmag-nole des Royalists may be attributed to the worst of demagogues." The latter begins:
" Oui, je suis sans culotte, moi En dcpit des amis du roi. Vive lcs Marseillois, Les Bretons ct nos lois 1''
" Madame Veto" was another production of the Revolution. When kingly privileges and authority went by the board, Louis XVI., as everyone knows, stood out for the right of veto-ing any laws which the National Assembly might pass. Now this word "Veto" was an unknown quantity to the majority, and the crowd grew turbulent and uncontrollable, and Louis XVI was nicknamed " Veto," and the Queen, Marie Antoinette, the " hated Austrian," whom the people detested more, perhaps, than anyone else, though it is not generally acknow-ledged, was shamefully abused. Poor Queen,
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