《德希蕾日记》02.doc

《德希蕾日记》02
《德希蕾日记》---02
Desiree’s Diary
Book One
Desiree, Wife of Marshal Bernadotte
Introduction
This book ism starting it tonight because I’m too worried to sleep. The police arrested my brother Etienne today. Tomorrow I
must go to the Town Hall with his wife, Suzanne. We must try to save him. If we fail, perhaps he’ll be guillotined. It’s a terrible thought.
The revolution began five years ago, and it hasn’t finished yet. The police often arrest people. They even take
women and children. Some are guillotined every day outside the Town Hall. Most of them have done nothing wrong; they just belong to noble families. But Papa was only a silk merchant. So why have they arrested Etienne?
Papa’s father wasn’t rich. He had a little shop and he sold cheap cloth. So Papa had to work very hard. But he
became the best silk merchant in Marseilles(马赛---法国第二大城市).He supplied some to Queen Marie
Antoinette. But then the queen was guillotined. No one had paid us for her silk.
When the police arrested Etienne, Marie said to me: “Albitte is in town. Suzanne must ask him to free your
brother.”
Marie is our cook. When anything happens here in Marseilles she always knows.
I’ll tell the family during dinner, I replied.
At dinner we were all very quiet and sad. Etienne’s chair was empty. So was Papa’s, of course, Mama won’t allow anyone else to sit on it. I was thinki