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(SR).] [Footnote 26130: Roederer, "oeuvres Completes." VIII 477.
"The club orators displayed France to the proletariat as a sure prey if they would seize hold of it."] [Footnote 26131: This manifesto, was drafted for the Duke of Brunswick-Lunebourg, the general commanding the combined Prussian and Austrian forces, by the French emigre Marquis de Limon.
It threatened the French and especially the Paris population with unspecified "rigors of war" should it have the temerity to resist or to harm the King and his family.
It was signed in Koblenz, Germany on 25 August 1792 and published in royalist newspapers 3 days later in Paris.( SR).] [Footnote 26132: "Moore's Journal," I.303-309.] [Footnote 26133: "Archives Nationales," 474, 426.
Section of Gravilliers, letter of Charles Chemin, commissary, to Santerre, and deposition of Ilingray, cavalryman of the national gendarmerie, Aug. 11.] [Footnote 26134: Beaumarchais, "oeuvres completes," letter of Aug.
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