Journal of My Life During the French Revolution

Grace Dalrymple Elliott

1859 թ. հնվ · [London] Rodale Press [1859]

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The memoir of Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1765-1823) is an eye-witness account of a British aristocrat and confirmed royalist during the early years of the French Revolution from 1789-c.1794. Her narrative includes notes on the fall of the Bastille, and the excesses of the Paris mob, a description of the attack on the Tuileries, hiding Swiss soldiers in her house, helping the Marquis de Chansenets to escape from Paris, and the Reign of Terror following the King's execution.