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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK IV
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One cry of _Vive la Nation!_ uttered by 300,000 voices, was the acceptation by the people.

The citizens embraced, as members of one family.

Balloons, bearing patriotic inscriptions, rose in the evening in the Champs Elysees, as if to bear to the skies the testimony of the joy of a regenerated people.

Those who went up in them threw out copies of the book of the constitution.

The night was splendid with illuminations.
Garlands of flames, running from tree to tree, formed, from the Arc de l'Etoile to the Tuileries, a sparkling avenue, crowded with the population of Paris.


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