The French Revolution

Thus, sayeth cohelith in ecclesiastes, he who was the son of David and a king in Jerusalem, better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who knows not how to take admonitions anymore.

The NBC University of the Air presents We Came This Way, a new historical series for our listeners at home and overseas. With Clifton Utley as narrator, we present chapter 14, a story of King Louis the 16th and the French Revolution.

In we came this way. Beat off the slow, suspenseful year, you drums. For the time is 1789 and the place France. It is summer, and to pen this event loom up like thunderheads against this year.

The French throne is crumbling. Beat you drums, beat. This is the crisis of the year, and King Louis fast and bored. The 16th Louis to rule France, King by divine rights. The glory of feudal France, tinkerers in a workshop.

Sixes locks and plays with mechanical toys. One need only turn this key, my dear brother, release this lock and the iron wheels begin to turn, and then the hammer strikes in the bell drink. Hmm, a miracle, your majesty.

He did, isn't it? I must take it apart and examine it. Stay with me, Artoir. It'll be interesting. More than a mechanical toy needs examining. Has a wonderful feeling when I turn the key out to our...

Brother, you're a king of France, not a locksmith. If you do not wish to stay... Today these overstuffed deputies of the National Assembly voted to forbid all taxes not specifically established by them. Can't you see what's happening, brother?

Oh, take those things to Miss Ennecker. Miss Ennecker is an ass! He is my minister. When it comes to counting pranks, Nectar is magnificent, true. For a politician, a man to deal with a crisis?