[History of the Girondists, Volume I by Alphonse de Lamartine]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Girondists, Volume I BOOK VI 49/97
Conquerors in this victory, they advanced towards another. After having forced the king to strike at the religion of his conscience, they wished to force him to deal a blow at the nobility and his own brothers.
They renewed the question of the emigrants.
The king and his ministers had anticipated them.
Immediately after the acceptance of the constitution, Louis XVI.
had formally renounced all conspiracy, interior or exterior, in order to recover his power.
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