ABSTRACT

The affairs of France during this period were only less interesting to the English than their own; and the proceedings of England were commented on by French statesmen of every party from day to day. The abdication of the King was placed in his hands at eleven o’clock of the night of the 2d of August; and, the next day, he opened the session of the Chambers, which met punctually according to the order of the late King, given some months before. In February, a most alarming disturbance took place in Paris, which ended in the sacking of a church, and the destruction of the Archbishop’s palace. The anniversary of the assassination of the Duke de Berri was kept by a religious service, notwithstanding a warning from the Archbishop of Paris of the danger of such an appeal to political passions.