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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER VI
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301 .-- Hua, 148 .-- Weber, II.
208 .-- Madame Campan, "Memoires," II.188.Already, at the end of 1791, the king was told that he was liable to be poisoned by the pastry-cook of the palace, a Jacobin.

For three or four months the bread and pastry he ate were secretly purchased in other places.

On the 14th of July, 1792, his attendants, on account of the threats against his life, put a breastplate on him under his coat.] [Footnote 2650: member of the 1789 Constituent Assembly.

(SR).] [Footnote 2651: Moniteur, VIII.

271, 278.


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