The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty

LOCKSMITH AND GUNSMITH. The French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, f…