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Title: In the Reign of Terror
The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

Author: G. A. Henty

Posting Date: May 19, 2009 [EBook #3785]
Release Date: January, 2003
First Posted: September 5, 2001

Language: English

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IN THE REIGN OF TERROR

The Adventures of a Westminster Boy.

by

G. A. Henty

PREFACE.

MY DEAR LADS,

This time only a few words are needed, for the story speaks for
itself. My object has been rather to tell you a tale of interest
than to impart historical knowledge, for the facts of the dreadful
time when "the terror" reigned supreme in France are well known to
all educated lads. I need only say that such historical allusions as
are necessary for the sequence of the story will be found correct,
except that the Noyades at Nantes did not take place until a somewhat
later period than is here assigned to them.

Yours sincerely,

G.A. HENTY.

CONTENTS

I A Journey to France
II A Mad Dog
III The Demon Wolf
IV The Clouds Gather
V The Outburst
VI An Anxious Time
VII The 2d of September
VIII Marie Arrested
IX Robespierre
X Free
XI Marie and Victor
XII Nantes
XIII In the Hands of the Reds
XIV The Noyades
XV England

CHAPTER I

A Journey to France

"I don't know what to say, my dear."

"Why, surely, James, you are not thinking for a moment of letting
him go?"

"Well, I don't know. Yes, I am certainly thinking of it, though I
haven't at all made up my mind. There are advantages and disadvantages."

"Oh, but it is such a long way, and to live among those French people,
who have been doing such dreadful things, attacking the Bastille,
and, as I have heard you say, passing all sorts of revolutionary
laws, and holding their king and queen almost as prisoners in
Paris!"

"Well, they won't eat him, my dear. The French Assembly, or the
National Assemb