(Session of March 10.

Speech by Brissot, to secure a decree of accusation against M.Delessart, Minister of Foreign Affairs.) M.Delessart is a "perfidious man," for having stated in a dispatch that "the Constitution, with the great majority of the nation, has become a sort of religion which is embraced with the greatest enthusiasm." Brissot denounces these two expressions as inadequate and anti-patriotic.-Ibid., XII.

438 (session of May 20).
Speech by Guadet: "Lariviere, the juge-de-paix, has convicted himself of the basest and most atrocious of passions, in having desired to usurp the power which the Constitution has placed in the hands of the National Assembly."-- I do not believe that Laubardemont himself could have composed anything equal to these two speeches .-- Cf.

XII.

462 (session of May 23).