[History of the Girondists, Volume I by Alphonse de Lamartine]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Girondists, Volume I BOOK II 72/117
It is impossible that all can feel the same joy at the flight of a king who possessed a revenue of forty millions of francs, and who distributed all the offices of state amongst his adherents and our enemies; there are traitors, then, among us; there is a secret understanding between the fugitive king and these traitors who have remained at Paris.
Read the king's manifesto, and the whole plot will be there unveiled.
The king, the emperor, the king of Sweden, d'Artois, Conde, all the fugitives, all these brigands, are about to march against us.
A paternal manifesto will appear, in which the king will talk of his love of peace, and even of liberty; whilst at the same time the traitors in the capital and the departments will represent you, on their part, as the leaders of the civil war.
Thus the Revolution will be stifled in the embraces of hypocritical despotism and intimidated moderatism. "Look already at the Assembly: in twenty decrees the king's flight is termed carrying off by force (_enlevement_).
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