We are going to leave, and to die if necessary.

But to live under such a revolting anarchy! Should it not be broken up we shall never set foot in France again!" The operation is successful.

The Assembly, through its decrees and institutions, through the laws it enacts and the violence which it tolerates, has uprooted the aristocracy and cast it out of the country.
The nobles, now the reverse of privileged, cannot remain in a country where, while respecting the law, they are really beyond its pale.

Those who first emigrated on the 15th of July, 1789, along with the Prince de Conde, received at their houses the evening before they left a list of the proscribed on which their names appeared, and a reward was promised to whoever would bring their heads to the cellar of the Palais-Royal--Others, in larger numbers, left after the occurrences of the 6th of October .-- During the last months of the Constituent Assembly,[2235] "the emigration goes on in companies composed of men of every condition.
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