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229, 233, 417 and following pages. M.Mortimer-Ternaux is the first to expose, with documents to support him and critical discussion, the formation of the revolutionary commune .-- The six sections referred to are the Lombards, Gravilliers, Mauconseil, Gobelins, Theatre-Francais, and Faubourg Poissonniere.] [Footnote 2668: For instance, the Enfants Rouges, Louvre, Observatoire, Fontaine-Grenelle, Faubourg Saint-Denis, and Thermes de Julien..] [Footnote 2669: For example, at the sections of Montreuil, Popincourt, and Roi de Sicile..] [Footnote 2670: For example, Ponceau, Invalides, Sainte-Genevieve.] [Footnote 2671: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.
240.] [Footnote 2672: Mortimer-Ternaux, 446 (list of the commissioners who took their seats before 9 o'clock in the morning).
"Le Tableau general des Commisaires des 48 sections qui ont compose le conseil general de la Commune de Paris, le 10 Aout, 1792," it must be noted, was not published until three or four months later, with all the essential falsifications. It may be found in Buchez et Roux, XVI.
450.--"Relation de l'abbe Sicard." "At that time a lot of scoundrels, after the general meeting of the sections was over, passed acts in the name of the whole assemblage and had them executed, utterly unknown to those who had done this, or by those who were the unfortunate victims of these proceedings." (supported by documents).] [Footnote 2673: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.
270, 273.
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