Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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 Paris were thing thnt mode the people criticize her severely. The common people grew poorer ami poorer •luring the reign of her hunhnml. Pori cheered as men spoke for the rights of the people for the first time in its history. Crowds gathered in street comers and secret societies were formed. All of a sudden a cry aro- c. “On to the Him tiller’ and the mob stormed and took thnt famous prison, where so muny had been unjustly thrown and cruelly treated. When King Louis XVI heard the news, he turned pale but did nothing to stop the revolution. On m cold October day in 1789, when the people of Paris were starving and women and children were stnnding at the bake shop windows begging for bread, the cry rang out. On to Versatile'!“ The mob became more and more unruly. A march toward Versailles started. That night it fought its way into the royal palace and Marie Antoinette barely escaped. The next morning the crowds demanded that the king and queen go bnck to Paris with them as prisoners. There was nothing for them to do but go. The revolution spread over France. At no distant date Ix»uis wo put on trial and condemned to die. The sentence was carried out on the guillotine. Marie Antoinette was left u widow and a prisoner. Terri! le descriptions have boon given of her treatment in prison the few remaining months of her life. Beside being torn from her child on, she met with the same abuse ok the common criminal. Finally her trial came—o mock trial indeed. Such shameful charge were made aguinst her. She was sentenced to the same fate as her husband. Bravely she bore herself like n true daughter of Marie Theresa. The Austrian princess had been a pleasure loving, oxtruvag.mt girl and woman, but when the final test came, she showed a character thnt was strong and true. Her courage did not waver. Notre Dame By AMBROSE PICA One of the flnotf and one of the most wonderful buildings In France is the Catholic Cathedral of Paris, known nil over the world u Notre Dumc, which mean Our Lady. The church of Notre Dame de Puri is a grand building, situated on the Seine River, and is in simple Gothic style. It is 417 feet long, 15f feet wide and 148 feet high. The foundation stones were laid in 1103 and it was about a hundred years in building. It Is one of the many cathedral.'; built in Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when a wave of creative energy and real overran France and resulted in the building of the great cathedrals, many of which remain to this day. The facade or chief front of Notre Dame, is is one of the noblest productions of early Gothic art. It ha three entrances with pointed arches; the plinth Is embroidered and indented with twenty-eight royal niche . There is nn immense central rose window, finnked by two lateral windows, like the priest by his deacon and sub-deacon. Above the windows U a high gallery of open-work arches, seemingly supporting on their delicate column a heavy platform; and lastly the two dark und massive tower with their Hinted pent-houses. These harmonious putts of a magnificent whole, plan'd in five gigantic stages, with their innumerable details of statuary, sculpture and curving, combine in producing a calm grandeur. The front of the building now luck three important things that were originally n part of it. The eleven steps which formerly raised it above the level of the ground have been obliterated by the raising of the street level, and the lower row of statues, which occupied the niches of the three porches, and the upper row of the twenty-eight ancient kings of France have been removed. The facade of Notre Dame in form resemble? the letter II. The twin towers, which finish vlf that part of the roof covering the side aisles, have never been decorated. The architect who ended the towers in that uncompromising horizontal line had very fine taste. Its severity and simplicity have great charm. The cathedral has a large broad nave or main hall, where large crowds can gather on great days. Inside the building the lovely golden light of stained glass draw one’s eyes and here, rank upon rank, are painted the Heavenly Company. There are many beautiful nnd wonderful picture and statue.', which were painted and [23] | tiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiimmimiimimiLiiimimiiimiiimiiiimmimiiiiiimmiiimmiuiiiiiiiimiimmiiiir.

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 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiij. mm reigned in th» streets and distant fin reddened the dark night. On Monday morning the city awakened but not to iu work day industry. The workers had become tighter . People wanted arms. Only the shops of tho smith weir open, for from them were tamed out pike which wore fiercely hammered nnd shaped to kill. These were the weapons for the hands of the bloodthirsty mob which formed a rising sea of ghastly faces in the «tn e .8. Meanwhile old Marquis IV taunny, keeper of the Bastille, laid pulled up the drawbridge and retired to its interior. Sentries walked the bnt-t einents through the night. Shot fired at them by revolutionists took no effect. Morning dawned on the fourteenth, in the distracted city grew a solemn determination to do or die. This day would be long remembered. With the curliest light came the cry, Arms! To arm !” There were a hundred and fifty thousand mutinous people, only on third of which were furnished with so much n a pike. At the Hotel dc Invulides there were muskets nnd at nine o'clock the flood of people was there. “To the Bastille! rang through the streets from thousands of mouths. Wave upon wave of the half-crazed hosts came from every direction to the repellent prixon. At last it wits besieged! A ruin of hard grnpevhot buret forth on the wails, nine feet thick, but accomplished nothing. Then the chums of the outer drawbridge were fiercely harked away. With it loud thunder the drawbridge fell. But this was only the outworks and the Bastille was yet to take. E The ronr of the great multitude grew deeper at the climnx of its frenzy. Panic muddened people swept like tire around the Bastille. The wounded were trampled in their last efforts to help take the accursed stronghold. It wns not easy to batter walls so thick. Inside, the great Bastille clock ticked hour nftor hour o if nothing special was parsing. It tolled one when the firing began and at five the uproar had not slackened. Fur down in their vaults, the seven prisoners, kept there at that time, heard the muffled din ns of earthquakes. Their turnkeys gave them no information. An army of French soldiers inarched up to the prison. For a moment there was a lull. The guardian.-- of the Pastille rejoked but. alas! the soldier had sided with the revolutionists. After four hours of hard fighting, the defender of the Bastille retired under their battlements. They rose with white Hags made of napkins tied to their muskets. A paper was held out of a porthole. Terms of surrender were accepted and the drawhridge wns lowered. The living deluge rushed in. The Bastille had fallen! Instant death was threatened the keeper? should any secret remain undisclosed. Out in the streets the seven prisoners were borne shoulder high while the heads of their turnkeys were carried on the ends of pikes. Old secret cume to light a the people dug into the walls nnd floor of the prison far into the night. F.vor since the fourteenth of July has been a national holiday in France in remembrance of the day when the Bastille, the symbol of tyranny and injustice of the ruling class, fell and with it the despotic nnd cruel government of a few, to be replaced, after much bloodshed, by u government of the people. The Reign of Terror By HARRIOT MOREHOUSE The Reign of Terror was the most sanguinary period during the whole of the French Revolution. For over a year the entire country was kept in n state of fear, suspicion, nnd hatred, class hatred in particular. The country was under the rule of a small group of men entirely without scruples, who were determined that France should become a nation free of the tyrannical rule of kings and nobles. And. although their rnu-e was to Ik admired, they went to terrible extremes in their struggle for It. There was little true friendship between the active members of the various Revolutionary Clubs. Oppressive taxation by the state, nobility, nnd church had aroused the lower class to open revolt. They willingly elected men who sympathized with their cause to serve ns their leaders. Not all of these men were wisely chosen, yet ull of them played important parts in the history of France. In fact, the story of th Reign of Terror is really a history of the leaders of the time. Perhaps the most powerful of nil was Marat. [25]