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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK II
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A tribune, a military tribune, or you are lost without hope.

At present I have done all that was in the power of man to save you.

If you neglect this last piece of advice, I have no more to say to you, and take my farewell of you for ever.

Louis XVI., at the head of his satellites, will besiege you in Paris, and the friend of the people will have a burning pile (_four ardent_) for his tomb, but his last sigh shall be for his country, for liberty, and for you." XVIII.
The members of the constitutional party felt it their duty to attend the sitting of the Jacobins on the 22d, in order to moderate its ardour.
Barnave, Sieyes, and La Fayette also appeared there, and took the oath of fidelity to the nation.

Camille Desmoulins thus relates the results of this sitting: "Whilst the National Assembly was decreeing, decreeing, decreeing, the people were acting.


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