Excerpt from Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, Vol. 2: From the Thirty-First of May 1793, Till the Twenty-Eighth of July 1794, and of Scenes Which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris Vol, II. B try, 2 try, but, the moment vou have paired the barriers of the city, prefent you with all the charming variety of vine-clad hills, and fields, and woods, and lawns. Imme diately after our releafe from prifon we quitted our apartments in the centre of the town, and tried to lhelter ourfelves from obfervation in an habitation litu ated in the molt remote part of the faux bourg Germain. From thence a few minutes walk led us to the country. But we no longer dared, as we had done the preceding year, to forget awhile the horrors of our 'fituation by wandering occafionally amidfi the noble parks of St. Cloud, the wild woods of Meudon, or the elegant gardens of Bellevue, all within an hour's ride of Paris. Thore feats, once the refidence of fallen royalty, were now haunted by vulgar def pots, by revolution ary commifi'aries, by fpies of the police, and fometimes by the fanguinary decem virs themfelves. Often they held their(3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.