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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK III
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The friends of this constitution, retrieving past errors, may still raise and maintain it firmly.

The Jacobins alarm public reason; the emigrants threaten our nationality.

Do not fear the Jacobins--put no trust in the emigrants.
Throw yourself into the national party which now exists.

Did not Henry IV.

ascend the throne of a Catholic nation at the head of a Protestant party ?" The queen with all sincerity adopted this tardy counsel, and arranged with Barnave all her measures, and all her foreign correspondence.


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