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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK III
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This is not the wish of the people, and the decree is therefore annulled.

He has been carried off by the two hundred and ninety-two _aristocrates_, who have themselves declared that they have no longer a voice in the National Assembly.

It is annulled because it is in opposition to the voice of the people, your sovereign.

Repeal your decree: the king has abdicated by his crime: receive his abdication; convoke a fresh constitutive power; point out the criminal, and organise a new executive power." This petition was laid on the altar of the country, and quires of paper, placed at the four corners of the altar, received six thousand autographs.
This petition is still preserved in the archives of the Municipality, and bears on it the indelible imprint of the hand of the people.

It is the medal of the Revolution struck on the spot in the fused metal of popular agitation.


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