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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
“The Bastille is besieged! On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies”
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book V (The Third Estate), Ch. VI, 'Storm and Victory' (Project Gutenberg #1301)
Narrating 14 July 1789 in the present tense, Carlyle shifts from describing the siege to exhorting the crowd as if he stood among them.
Citation: "The Bastille is besieged! On, then, all Frenchmen that have hearts in their bodies" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book V (The Third Estate), Ch. VI, 'Storm and Victory' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q2)
