EPILOGUE—ON RE-READING THE STORIES( For which the Author is not responsible. )
I. THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES
1. Recall the events in France between 1789 and 1791.
2. The episode of the Queen's wrong turning gave Thomas Carlyle material for a stirring paragraph in his French Revolution . Here it is:—
Alas! and the false Chambermaid has warned Gouvion that she thinks the Royal Family will fly this very night; and Gouvion, distrusting his own glazed eyes, has sent express for Lafayette; and Lafayette's Carriage, flaring with lights, rolls this moment through the inner Arch of the Carrousel,—where a Lady shaded in broad gypsy-hat, and leaning on the arm of a servant, also of the Runner or Courier sort, stands aside to let it pass, and has even the whim to touch a spoke of it with her badine ,—
