Do you remember the history of the Greeks, where a first revolution not terminated produced so many others during a period of only half a century?
Do you remember that Europe has her eyes fixed on your weakness and agitations, and whilst she will respect you if you are free within the limits of order, she will surely profit by your disorders if you only know how to weaken yourself and alarm her by your anarchy ?" Malouet demanded, therefore, that the constitution should be submitted to the judgment of the people, and to the free acceptance of the king.
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This magnificent harangue only sounded as the voice of remorse in the bosom of the Assembly.

It was listened to with impatience, and then forgotten with all speed.

M.de La Fayette opposed, in a short speech, the proposition of M.Dandre, who desired to adjourn for thirty years the revision of the constitution.

The Assembly neither adopted the advice of Dandre nor of La Fayette, but contented itself with inviting the nation not to make use for twenty-five years of its right to modify the constitution.

"Behold us, then," said Robespierre, "arrived at the end of our long and painful career: it only remains for us to give it stability and duration.