II.116.
Petition of 228 notables of Montargis.] [Footnote 2604: Petition of the 20,000, so-called, presented by Messrs.

Guillaume and Dupont de Nemours .-- Cf..

Mortimer-Ternaux, I.
278 .-- According to Buchez et Roux, the petition containing only 7,411 names.] [Footnote 2605: Mortimer-Ternaux, I.277.] [Footnote 2606: Moniteur, XIII.89.The act (July 7) is drawn up with admirable precision and force.

On comparing it with the vague, turgid exaggerations of their adversaries, it seems to measure the intellectual distance between the two parties.] [Footnote 2607: 339 against 224--Roederer ("Chronique des cinquante jours," p.79).

"A strong current of opinion by a majority of the inhabitants of Paris sets in favor of the King."-- C.