"Let the report be made instantly," demanded Brissot.

"Declare war against kings, and peace to all nations," cried Merlin.

The war was voted.
Condorcet, who had been informed already of this by the Girondists of the council, read in the tribune a proposed manifesto to the nations.
The following was its substance: "Every nation has the right of giving itself laws, and of altering them at pleasure.

The French nation had every reason to believe that these simple truths would obtain the assent of all princes.

This hope has not been fulfilled.