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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK IV
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Why are we asked to submit to the acceptance of the king?
The fate of the constitution is independent of the will of Louis XVI.

I do not doubt he will accept it with delight.

An empire for patrimony, all the attributes of the executive power, forty millions for his personal pleasures,--such is our offer! Do not let us wait, before we offer it, until he be away from the capital and environed by ill advisers.

Let us offer it to him in Paris.

Let us say to him, Behold the most powerful throne in the universe--will you accept it?
Suspected gatherings, the system of weakening your frontiers, threats of your enemies without, manoeuvres of your enemies within,--all warns you to hasten the establishment of an order of things which assures and fortifies the citizens.


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