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In London he only spent four months, the February, March, April, and May of 1791.
Then followed the Welsh tour with Jones, and his return to Cambridge in September 1791 .-- Ed.] [Footnote B: With Jones in the previous year, 1790 .-- Ed.] [Footnote C: Orleans .-- Ed.] [Footnote D: The Champ de Mars is in the west, the Rue du Faubourg St.
Antoine (the old suburb of St.Antony) in the east, Montmartre in the north, and the dome of St.Genevieve, commonly called the Pantheon, in the south of Paris .-- Ed.] [Footnote E: The clergy, noblesse, and the 'tiers etat' met at Notre Dame on the 4th May 1789.

On the following day, at Versailles, the 'tiers etat' assumed the title of the 'National Assembly'-- constituting themselves the sovereign power--and invited others to join them.

The club of the Jacobins was instituted the same year.

It leased for itself the hall of the Jacobins' convent: hence the name .-- Ed.] [Footnote F: The Palais Royal, built by Cardinal Richelieu in 1636, presented by Louis XIV.

to his brother, the Duke of Orleans, and thereafter the property of the house of Orleans (hence the name).


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