[History of the Girondists, Volume I by Alphonse de Lamartine]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Girondists, Volume I BOOK II 56/117
Force is necessary at Paris, but tranquillity is equally so.
It is you, who must direct this force." These words of Barnave were voted to be the text of the proclamation.
At this moment information was brought that M.de Cazales, the orator of the _cote droit_, was in the hands of the people, and exposed to the greatest danger at the Tuileries. Six commissioners were appointed to go to his succour, and they conducted him to the chamber.
He mounted the tribune, irritated at once against the people, from whose violence he had just escaped, and against the king, who had abandoned his partisans without giving them any timely information. "I have narrowly escaped being torn in pieces by the people," cried he; "and without the assistance of the national guard, who displayed so much attachment for me--." At these words which indicated the pretension to personal popularity lurking in the mind of the royalist orator, the Assembly gave marked signs of disapprobation, and the _cote gauche_ murmured loudly.
"I do not speak for myself," returned Cazales, "but for the common interest.
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