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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 4 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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Double representation (of the Third Estate) was proposed for it." Among other charges made against Danton; after the fusillade on the Champ de Mars in July, 1791 "You went to pass happy days at Arcis-sur-Aube, if it is possible for a conspirator against his country to be happy....

When you knew that the tyrant's fall was prepared and inevitable you returned to Paris on the 9th of August.

You wanted to go to bed on that evil night....

Hatred, you said, is insupportable to me and (yet) you said to us 'I do not like Marat,' etc." There is an apostrophe of nine consecutive pages against Danton, who is absent.] [Footnote 3270: Buchez et Roux, Ibid., 312.

"Liberty emanated from the bosom of tempests; its origin dates with that of the world issuing out of chaos along with man, who is born dissolved in tears." (Applause.)--Ibid., 308.Cf.his portrait, got up for effect, of the "revolutionary who is a treasure of good sense and probity."] [Footnote 3271: Ibid., 312.


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