Vulgar words in The French Revolution - Volume 1 (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
blockhead x 1
buffoon x 1
knocked up x 1
            

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Meanwhile, at the Palais-Royal, other buffoons, who with the levity of gossips sport with lives as freely as with words, have drawn u.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,343   ~   ~   ~

"March, rascal, you bastard!

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A publican, who refuses to distribute anti-Catholic lists, is supposed to have a mine in his cellar filled with kegs of gunpowder and with sulfur matches all ready; he is hacked to pieces with a saber, and twenty guns are discharged into his corpse: they expose the body before his house with a long loaf of bread on his breast, and they again stab him with bayonets, saying to him: "Eat, you bastard, eat"--More than five hundred Catholics were assassinated, and many others, covered with blood, "are crowded together in the prisons, while the search for the proscribed is continued; whenever they are seen, they are fired upon like so many wolves."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,868   ~   ~   ~

The National Guards of the towns are knocked up by expeditions into the country, and there is no money with which to provide for their change of quarters.

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Nothing like it ever occurred in history; for the first time we see brutes gone mad, operating on a grand scale and for a long time, under the leadership of blockheads who have become insane.

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