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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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It is the Convention which must remove all formalities that interfere with the course pursued by the tribunal."-- Moniteur, XVII., (Session of October 28), 291.

The decree provoked by a petition of Jacobins, is passed on motion of Osselin, aggravated by Robespierre.] [Footnote 11109: Louvet, "Memoires," 321.

(List of the Girondists who perished or who were proscribed.

Twenty-four fugitives survived.)] [Footnote 11110: Mortimer-Ternaux, VIII., 395, 416, 435.

The terror and disgust of the majority is seen in the small number of voters.


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