General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Estes and Lauriat Subjects: Girondists France Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / Europe / France Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. WHAT SOHT OF MAN THE CITIZEN MAURICE LINDEY WAS. While Maurice Lindey, having dressed quickly, proceeds to the section of La Rue Lepelletier, of which, as we already know, he was secretary, we will endeavour to lay before the public the antecedents of this young man, introduced upon the scene by one of those impulses so familiar to powerful and generous natures. The young man had spoken correctly the preceding evening when, in reply, he had said his name was Maurice Lindey, resident in La Rue du Roule. He might have added he was a child of that half aristocracy accorded to the gentlemen of the robe. His ancestors for two hundred years had distinguished themselves by that same parliamentary opposition which had rendered so illustrious the names of Mole1 and Maupeou. His father, the good Lindey, who had passed his life grumbling against despotism, when on the 14th of July, '89, the Bastille had fallen by the hands of the people, died from sudden fright and the shock of seeing despotism replaced by a liberty militant, leaving his only son independent by fortune and republican in principles. The Revolution which had closely followed this great event found Maurice in all the vigour and maturity of manhood becoming a champion prepared to enter the lists; his republican education improved by his great assiduity to the clubs, and from reading all the pamphlets of that period. God knows how many Maurice ...