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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 3 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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We were told: 'Here is an aristocrat who is going to fly; you must stop him, or your yourselves are traitors!' Pistols were pointed at us and we found ourselves obliged to sign warrants, not so much for our own safety as for that of the persons denounced."] [Footnote 31129: Granier de Cassagnac, II.

258 .-- Prudhomme, "Les Crimes de la Revolution," III.

272 .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, III.

631 .-- De Ferriere, III.

391 .-- (The expression quoted was recorded by Retif de la Bretonne.)] [Footnote 31130: That is how to do it, must any anarchist or hopeful revolutionary have thought, upon reading Taine's livid description.-But also: "Do not let the bourgeois read this, it might scare them and make our task more difficult." (SR).] [Footnote 31131: Moniteur, XIII.


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