Speech by Petion: "Yesterday there was some talk of again visiting the prisons, and particularly the Conciergerie."] [Footnote 31134: Perhaps Mao read this and later coined his famous slogan "that all political power emanates from the barrels of guns." (SR).] [Footnote 31135: "Archives Nationales," II.

58 to 76.

Official reports of the Paris electoral assembly .-- Robespierre is elected the twelfth (Sept.

5), then Danton and Collot d'Herbois (Sept.

6) then Manuel and Billaud-Varennes (Sept.