Word: mirabeau
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...MIRABEAU (542 pp.)-Antonina Vallentin-Viking...
...Mirabeau lives in history as the nobleman whose defiance of the king did much to bring on the French Revolution. When Louis XVI ordered the Third Estate to vote separately from the other orders, it was Mirabeau who said: "Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not leave except by force of bayonets...
...father hated Mirabeau. "He is crossgrained, fantastic, fiery, awkward, with a drift to evil before he knows of it or is capable of it. ... I shall go on dragging my son along without knowing what river to throw him into." Mirabeau almost died of smallpox at three, was disfigured by it. All the children (his parents had eleven) were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands...
...Mirabeau, We Are Here...
Asked to add a few words in French to a brief radio address, he hesitated, then beamed and faced the microphone. He delivered a single portentous sentence. Translation: "When the French Revolution was about to collapse, Mirabeau had to be called...