Vulgar words in The French Revolution - Volume 2 (Page 1)
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This pert blockhead cannot even spell: he writes aselle for aisselle, etc.
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Malouet, on leaving it, is almost dragged from his carriage, and the crowd around him cry out, "There goes the bastard who denounced the people!"
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One day Hua, on going up the steps of the Tuileries terrace, is seized by the hair by an old vixen who bids him "Bow your head to your sovereigns, the people, you bastard of a deputy!"
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The Assembly, guided and forced by the Jacobins, will only amend the law to damn the oppressed and to authorize their oppressors.--Without making any distinction between armed assemblages at Coblentz, which it had a right to punish, and refugees, three times as numerous, old men, women and children, so many indifferent and inoffensive people, not merely nobles but plebeians,[2312] who left the soil only to escape popular outrages, it confiscates the property of all emigrants and orders this to be sold.
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[Footnote 2422: Ibid., Dispatch of the commissioners, June 19: "One of the Mint gang causes notes to be publicly distributed (addressed to the unsworn) in these words: 'If you don't "piss-off" you will have to deal with the gang from the Mint.'"]
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And damn it, if he does not sanction the decree against the priests, and do it right off; we will come back every day.
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"I shall have a good supper to-night," he exclaimed "(or the head of that bastard Peynier is a fat one, and I'll stick it in my Pot!")]
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We heard citizens all in rags say that it was a pity; he looks like a good sort of a bastard."]
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"Get up, you hussy, the nation forgives you!"
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The officer of the guard argues with him, upon which he extends his hand to the king, exclaiming: "Touch that hand, bastard, and you have shaken the hand of an honest man!
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But I have no intention that your bitch of a wife goes with you to the Assembly; we don't want that whore."
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[31120]--At the Salpétrière prison, "all the pimps of Paris, former spies,... libertines, the rascals of France and all Europe, prepare beforehand for the operation," and rape alternates with massacre.
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damn it, do you suppose that we would send you young ladies?"]
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The volunteers, however, force open the guard-house, and throw the man out of the first-story window; they then finish him off with "blows with clubs and weights," drag his body along the street and cast it into the river.--The evening before, at Clairac,[3255] M. Lartigue-Langa, an unsworn priest, pursued through the street by a troop of men and women, who wanted to remove his cassock and set him on an ass, found refuge, with great difficulty, in his country-house.
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Such are the politicians who, after the last months of the year 1792, rule over Paris, and, through Paris, over the whole of France, five thousand brutes and blackguards with two thousand hussies, just about the number a good police force would expel from the city, were it important to give the capital a cleaning out;[33109] they too, were convinced of their rights, all the more ardent in their revolutionary faith, because the creed converts their vices into virtues, and transforms their misdeeds into public services.
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Add also, and especially, the future iron-handed representatives, uncouth, authoritarian, and narrow-minded, excellent troopers for a political militia, Bourbotte, Duquesnoy, Rewbell, and Bentabole, "a lot of ignorant bastards," said Danton,[3415] "without any common sense, and patriotic only when drunk.
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"Your victory is only half-won," writes Hébert in his Père Duchesne, "all those bastards of intriguers still live!"
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The party in June, 1793, is composed of little more than unreliable workmen, town and country vagabonds, the habitués of hospices[34169], sluts of the gutter, degraded and dangerous persons,[34170] the déclassé, the corrupt, the perverted, the maniacs of all sorts.
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A blockhead, with a beery voice, blinking eyes, and a face distorted by nervous twitching, he possesses all the external characteristics of his employment.