Whoever said what or when, 什么时候说的 说了什么都不重要了 the revolutionaries were after the queen's blood, 革命分子想置皇后于死地 and were soon breaking down the palace gates. 很快 他们攻陷了宫殿大门 They broke...
Louis may not have wanted to go to war with his own people,but many of them now wanted to go to war with him. 路易可能不想和他的子民开战 但他的许多子民想和他开战 Three months after the fall of the Bastille,a group of angry Pa...
Faced with the crumbling of the structure of the old Estates-General, 面临着旧三级会议体系即将瓦解的现实 Louis XVI decided finally that he would resort to force. 路易十六终于决定诉诸于武力 As a result, he began to call i...
With negotiations at the estates-General still hopelessly bogged down, 与三级会议的谈判仍停滞不前 the Third Estate sent a group to Versailles 第三等级派出一支队伍去凡尔赛 to ask for Louis' help. 旨在获得路易的帮助...
A difficult time grew even worse 对路易和玛丽安托瓦内特来说 for Louis and Marie Antoinette 日子变得愈发困难 with the death of their eldest son. 他们痛失了第一个孩子 The death of the Dauphin, the young heir to the throne...
In August 1788, the treasury was bare. 1788年8月 国库已经耗光 The government was forced to summon an Estates-General. 政府被迫召开一个全阶级会议 It really was a last throw of the dice. 这是最后的孤注一掷 Despite their hu...
Louis' mental state was hardly improved 当有人偷偷溜进他的寝宫 when somebody sneaked into his private chamber 留给他一件令人讨厌的礼物时 and left him an unwelcomed gift. 他的精神状况基本没有好转 A portrait of the e...
Calonne was the third Finance Minister to fall from grace 加隆是第三个因为试图 after trying to make the rich pay more tax. 让富人们交税而失宠的财政部长 And the third that Louis had supported only to sack. 路易支持的这第三...
The Assembly of Notablesincluded 显贵会议包含了 all the most powerful figures in Louis' realm. 路易统治下的所有权贵人物 They had the authority to see that Calonne's reforms 他们有权看着加隆的改革议案 became the law of...
1787 and 1788 will be characterised 1787与1788两年被描述为 by a state that's desperate for financial reform 这个国家急需财政改革 to get out of the situation 以助于走出迫在眉睫的 of bankruptcy which is staring it in the face...