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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III

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7): "The convention is getting chosen--really in a decisive spirit.

Some two hundred of our best Legislators may be re-elected, the Mountain bodily.

Robespierre, with Mayor Petion, Buzot, Curate Gregoire and some threescore Old Constituents; though we men had only _thirty voices._ All these and along with them friends long known to the Revolutionary fame: Camille Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech, Manuel Tallein and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mersier, Louvet of _Faubias_; Clootz, Speaker of Mankind, Collet d'Herbois, tearing a passion to rags; Fahre d'Egalantine Speculative Pamphleteer; Legendre, the solid Butcher; nay Marat though rural France can hardly believe it, or even believe there is a Marat, except in print." Ed.] [Footnote L: Many of the old French Noblesse, and other supporters of Monarchy, fled across the Rhine, and with thousands of emigres formed a special Legion, which co-operated with the German army under the Emperor Leopold and the King of Prussia .-- Ed.] [Footnote M: Compare book vi.l.345, etc .-- Ed.] [Footnote N: Beaupuy.

See p.

297 [Footnote I, above]: "Save only one, hereafter to be named," [Line 132] and the note on Beaupuy, in the appendix [Note VII] to this volume, p.
401 .-- Ed.] [Footnote O: Compare Wordsworth's poem 'Dion', in volume vi.


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