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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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326.) Letter of M.de Montmorin, July 13, 1792.

On the disposition of the people of Paris, wearied and worn out "to excess." "They will take no side, either for or against the king...

They no longer stir for any purpose; riots are wholly factitious.

This is so right that they are obliged to bring men from the South to get them up.

Nearly all of those who forced the gates of the Tuileries, or rather, who got inside of them on the 20th of June, were outsiders or onlookers, got together at the sight of such a lot of pikes and red caps, etc.


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